Re: Reducing the size of a serialized object.

Having done a little research on the web and found lots of pages on Java
Serialization I find that the best place to look is the JavaDoc's
introduction to the: ObjectOutputStream.

>From lines like:

" The default serialization mechanism for an object writes the class of the
object, the class signature, and the values of all non-transient and
non-static fields. "

I am assuming that when it says "writes the class of the object" that it
does not write the .class file but rather just a string saying what the
class is called.

This would mean that my adding 3 big methods would only add 3 more strings
(their signatures) to the traffic on the line. This I can live with.

Thanks,

Andoni.


"Andoni" <no_spam_please@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hello,
>
> I have an RMI server that takes certain actions on a bean that is passed
to
> it. Because a lot of beans are being sent over the wire to the RMI server
> every day I want to try to keep down the size of the serialized bean.
>
> I am not using a web server or class server to download stubs but instead
I
> just put a copy of all classes (and stubs) on each machine at deployment
> time so that the only thing that needs to be passed over the wire is the
> data in the bean. Now I have a decision to make. I want to add 3 big
methods
> to the bean because they should be part of this bean for the program to be
> very OO compliant. I want to know, will this increase the amount of data
> that has to be sent over the wire?
>
> In short: are the methods of a serialized bean also serialized in some way
> or is it only the data contained in the object or is it the data and the
> method signatures?
>
> Thanks in advance for any and all help,
>
> Andoni.
>
>


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