[hibernate-dev] Why do Services need to be Serializable?

[Steve Ebersole]

Hmm, not sure why I wrote that.  I don't think they have to actually 
given how we "serialize" the SessionFactory.

On 09/26/2012 07:24 AM, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
> I just found this comment on org.hibernate.service.Service:
>
> /**
>   * Marker interface for services.
>   * <p/>
>   * NOTE : All services must be {@link Serializable}!
>   *
>   * @author Steve Ebersole
>   */
> public interface Service extends Serializable {
>
>
> What kind of bad things will happen to us if violating this recommendation?
>
> In OGM we have for example connection pools managed in a Service, we
> can hardly serialize that.
>
> Sanne
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