The classes aren't Serializable, no. In the case of DataModel, it's assumed that you already have some persisted model somewhere, in a DB or file or something, so this would be redundant.
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Vinod <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is my first day of experimentation with Mahout. I am following "Mahout > in Action" book and looking at the sample code provided, it seems that > models for ex:- recommender, needs to be trained at the start of the > program (start/restart). Recommender interface extends Refreshable which > doesn't extend serializable. So, I am wondering if Mahout provides an > alternate mechanism to to persist trained models (recommender instance in > this case). > > Apologies if this is a very silly question. > > Thanks & regards, > Vinod >
