[infinispan-dev] @Marshallable as an option for end user externalizers?

[Manik Surtani]

On 17 Mar 2011, at 14:16, David M. Lloyd wrote:

>> 
>> Ah I see what you mean.  Initially I thought you'd only need to
>> register the externaliser when you first encounter a new type (i.e.,
>> when a user defined type is first encountered with a put()), but this
>> may not be the case since on the remote node it may see the a new
>> magic number which may not be registered, and then you have a
>> problem.
> 
> Marshalling will send Externalizers across the wire too, so the
> receiving side need not know about it in advance.  The sending side can
> then do this kind of discovery safely.  In addition, JBMAR already has
> the @org.jboss.marshalling.Externalize annotation which does just this.
> 
> Unless you're talking about your own mechanism, anyway.  Just thought 
> I'd throw this bit out there.

Sweet.  I think we can make this work then - even reusing JBM's annotations.

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