On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 13:49 +0200, Thomas Zander wrote: > On Saturday 28 May 2005 14:46, Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > I imagine its reasonable to suggest supporting RMI > > (which requires serialization) for e.g. the SpinnerDateModel, but I > > don't see why we need it for the components (perhaps someone wants to > > enlighten me?) > > There are people that find the instantiation and startup of Java to take too > long so they serialize the whole instantiated GUI and then write that to a > binairy blob to the jar file. > The client then starts the GUi by deserialising that file and showing it. > > I think its butt-ugly and feel it does not need to be supported, but there > are people out there (mostly companies) that do it. So, now you know :)
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