[jdom-interest] JDom-Dokument: Serialized oversized

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 7:41 PM +0100 5/4/01, Sven Behrens wrote:
>Hallo,
>
>I am very new to JDom and just had the following idea:
>
>"Use the JDOM-Document to store a complex database-entity composed of
>entries from many tables in the database scheme, because I can benefit
>from an XML-presentation."
>
>This will be a part of a result I have to communicate via RMI. So this
>needs to be compact for performance-reasons.
>

Then you can't use RMI. Java object serialization is notoriously 
bloated, slow, and inefficient. This isn't a JDOM unique problem. In 
fact one common solution is to replace Java's built-in serialization 
with XML which is much smaller and faster. It's a myth that binary 
file formats are necessarily smaller or faster than text formats. 
Object serialization in Java is a classic counter-example. This 
really has very little to do with JDOM.
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