[jdom-interest] org.jdom.Namespace not implementing Serializa ble?

[Kevin Regan]

However, this is no longer true in JDK 1.3.

--Kevin


On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Humphrey Sheil wrote:

> Thanks,
> 
> I should have traversed the entire object graph to find this.
> 
> I was hoping to avoid having to serialize the Document to a string.  The
> JDK
> has imposed a hard 64k limit on the serialized form of a string (in
> java.io.DataOutputStream), since it uses the first two bytes of the
> underlying array to store the size of the array.  Any bigger and a
> UTFDataFormatException will be thrown.
> 
> Humphrey
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jools Enticknap [mailto:jools at jools.org]
> Sent: 20 July 2000 19:32
> To: Humphrey Sheil
> Cc: 'jdom-interest at jdom.org'
> Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] org.jdom.Namespace not implementing
> Serializable?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 1.  Should Namespace be Serializable?  I don't think so - the javadoc
> says
> > that it is not just a namespace - it is also a factory for creating
> them.
> 
> It's still an issue, there was a discussion about it, check the
> archives.
> 
> > 
> > 2.  Anybody got any idea why RMI tries to serialize Namespace in the
> first
> > place when I'm only trying to pass around an instance of a Document
> (which
> > contains no references to Namespace)?
> > 
> 
> A Document contains references to Element, which in turn has references
> to
> Namespace. For the object to be serialized all the objects it references
> to must also be serializable.
> 	
> Can I suggest that you serialize the document into a String and then
> send
> that over the wire. The client can then create a JDOM object from the
> String using the SAXBuilder class.
> 
> 
> 
> --Jools
> 
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