[Biojava-l] persistence - and the problems with it

[Gerald Loeffler]

Mark Schreiber wrote:
> 
...
> 
> I may have this completely wrong but isn't serialization important for
> piping objects between threads. (To be honest i've never tried piping an
> object not marked as serializable). If this is the case however it would
> be a good idea to mark anything that is likely to be thrown around by
> threads as serializable.

nope - serialization only comes into play when you want to export/import
an object from/to a JVM - either to/from another JVM (e.g. over the net
(sockets, RMI, HTTP, ...)) or to/from external storage (e.g. a file).

To be honest, you surely could pipe a serialised representation of an
object from one thread to another thread running within the same JVM -
but i don't see why you would want to do that, because you could easily
(and more efficiently) just pass an (immutable?) reference between
threads.

	cheers,
	gerald
> 
> Just my $NZ 0.02 (thats about $US 0.01).
> 
> Mark
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