Re: [infinispan-dev] StoreByValueTest tck test

The reason we have storeAsBinary is due to lazyDeserialization. The latter was a solution we designed to get around deserialization issues on app server environments where JGroups would attempt to deserialize data with the wrong classloader. The idea at the time was that deserialization would be delayed until a thread with the correct classloader in context would come and deserialize data, hence the name: lazy deserialization. This was needed in AS4/5/6. The design has always been the same, make sure data is kept in binary format in the receiver and only deserialize when needed. This lazy deserialization is no longer needed in AS7 cos a particular plugin is set in JBoss Marshaller which adds modular classloader info to serialized data. So, when data arrives in the receiver, it can be deserialized directly cos the classloader info allows for the correct classloader to be found. The naming change of lazyDeserialization to storeAsBinary was on purpouse and precisely with the aim of it becoming a way to provide store-as-value capabilities. The problem is that as you and Vladimir have spotted, this doesn't really work like that.