Quoting Bill Rosenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I am trying to avoid using hidden variables in my HTML pages to save
> state of my servlets. I know I can use the HTTP session to store this,
> but my client wants to avoid this overhead. I thought about taking a
> class and serializing the data into ASCII and storing that into one
> hidden variable instead of many. Can someone lend some assistance in how
> to serialize data in Ascii and then unserialize this Ascii data back
> into a Java class. I tried using 'URLEncoder.encode' and
> 'URLEncoder.decode' with no luck. Thanks in advance.
I think the cost of serializing and unserializing your data to something
that is transmitted over the network is likely to outweigh the cost
of using an HTTP session.
Anyway, to answer your question what you want to do is look at the
DataInputStream and DataOutputStream.
Justin
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