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

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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