[2615] in java-interest
Re: passing object
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (neudeck.arthur@ch.swissbank.com)
Fri Oct 6 05:23:05 1995
From: neudeck.arthur@ch.swissbank.com
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 08:12:37 --100
To: Thomas.Ball@Eng.Sun.COM
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM, neudeca@ch.swissbank.com
Hi Tom ...
> No, there is not. Object copying is a hard problem, one many papers have
> been and will be written. There is no generic support for it in Java.
Can you imagine some of those papers ?
Actually I'm looking for a way to implement this feature in Java.
Do you know somebody, who has already worked on that problem?
>
> Application-specific object copying is easier -- you have to decant and
> recant the object's stateful information by passing it as a stream of
> primitive types. The exception is Strings, which can be passed using
> readUTF and writeUTF. Arrays are best sent by first sending the array
> length, followed by each element -- this way the receiver can allocate
> the correctly-sized array before initializing each element. Note that
> you also own the burden of synchonization between these objects.
Thanks,
Arthy
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