Re: Java Serializing in C/C++?

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:30:35 -0500
Message-ID:
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coal@mailvault.com wrote:

On Feb 27, 2:39 pm, Lew <l...@lewscanon.com> wrote:

c...@mailvault.com wrote:

MsgManager
  (string) @MSGID_1
  (string, string) @MSGID_2
  (vector<string>) @MSGID_3
}
Since the vector<string> msg could handle any of those msgs,
I might get rid of the first two.

Presumably you will not use the java.util.Vector class but something like
java.util.ArrayList or another modern java.util.List implementation in your
Java implementation, correct?


I don't know if we will ever have a Java implementation. I'm
interested in providing an alternative to C++ serialization
libraries. If we're successful with that, we might consider
Java support. What little I know about Java though is that
it would be somewhat unfriendly to our approach. C++
permits a class definition to be placed in multiple files
but Java doesn't. What we generate is intended to be placed in
a file separate from hand-written code. I have no desire to
add computer-generated code to a file that contains hand-written
code. So Java is not a very high priority at this time.


Oh. Given the subject heading, the original post saying,

with a Java or Oracle listening for queries

and the cross-post to a Java group, I had thought that it would be relevant,
at least for the part where you "send... it to the
server and unpack the multiple results" on the Java end.

--
Lew

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