Re: The future of Serialization

2014-08-11 Thread Peter Firmstone
Brian, Thanks for picking up on my frustration ;) I have something in mind for Serializable2 to address cyclic data structures and the possibility of independant evolution of super and child classes, while retaining a relatively clean public api, with one optional private method. The methods

Re: The future of Serialization

2014-08-11 Thread Peter Firmstone
On 11/08/2014 8:12 PM, Peter Firmstone wrote: Brian, Thanks for picking up on my frustration ;) I have something in mind for Serializable2 to address cyclic data structures and the possibility of independant evolution of super and child classes, while retaining a relatively clean public api,

Re: The future of Serialization

2014-08-11 Thread Alan Bateman
On 09/08/2014 06:56, Peter Firmstone wrote: I've noticed there's not much interest in improving Serialization on these lists. This makes me wonder if java Serialization has lost relevance in recent years with the rise of protocol buffers apache thrift and other means of data transfer over byt

Re: The future of Serialization

2014-08-11 Thread Peter Firmstone
Thanks Alan, I can relate to time poverty :) I might be assuming too much, but if there's interest in doing something with Serialization, I'd be interested in learning about plans or difficulties involved in deserialization and modules. It can be a little more difficult to find the correct C

Re: The future of Serialization

2014-08-11 Thread Alan Bateman
On 11/08/2014 13:06, Peter Firmstone wrote: Thanks Alan, I can relate to time poverty :) I might be assuming too much, but if there's interest in doing something with Serialization, I'd be interested in learning about plans or difficulties involved in deserialization and modules. It can be a

Re: RFR: JDK-8054118 - java/net/ipv6tests/UdpTest.java failed intermittently

2014-08-11 Thread Mark Sheppard
grand ... thanks Dmitry Mark On 07/08/2014 19:25, Dmitry Samersoff wrote: Mark, We can put nic.getDisplayName() under isWindows and save a bit of computer power. -Dmitry On 2014-08-07 22:15, Mark Sheppard wrote: Hi, please oblige and review the following fix http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~