On 20 Jun 2012, at 14:30, Martin Gencur wrote: > Hi, > I'm playing with partial object's state transfer, similar to how > AtomicHashMap/AtomicHashMapDelta works. The purpose of these classes > is, > among other things, to show that for objects large in size we can > transfer just the updated part of them, not whole objects. > > I tried to implement DeltaAware and Delta interfaces and my tests > showed > that only methods of the delta object's externalizer were called. > Not > methods of the externalizer of the actual object holding the data. > > To be precise - I have two classes: > Bicycle implements DeltaAware (similar to AtomicHashMap) > BicycleDelta implements Delta (similar to AtomicHashMapDelta) > > ...and only BicycleDelta's externalizer's methods were called. Not > those > of Bicycle's externalizer. > > This brings me to AtomicHashMap... is the externalizer for this > class > ever used/needed? > Yes, when serialising to disk. :)

Does your test use a CacheStore?

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