Designing For Object Serialization

Sun, 01 Jul 2001 00:00:00 EDT

Often objects need to be serializable. This can be as easy as simply declaring that a class implements the Serializable interface. But just because an object says it's serializable doesn't necessarily mean that it will serialize (and deserialize) successfully. This article will explore what serialization is, how to prove that a purportedly serializable object can really be serialized, and how to redesign a nonserializable class to make it serializable.

An Introduction To Workflow and Workflow Management Systems

Fri, 01 Sep 2000 00:00:00 EDT

The Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), especially its Enterprise JavaBeans technology, provides an industry standard for the development of distributed enterprise applications. EJB helps solve a major problem: providing distributed access to persistent data. But it doesn't solve a related problem: modeling the business processes that applications use to access and manipulate that data.

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