Hello, I agree that the Memento is probably not necesarry for achieving backwards compatibility. Google Protocol Buffers (or ApaPche Thrift) could also be interesting : * better performance than xml encoding/decoding (not yet tested it myself though) * you can update the message types without breaking existing code [1] * support for Java, C++ and python I will do a benchmark ASAP. [1] http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/proto.html#updating regards, Maarten On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Ceki Gulcu <ceki@qos.ch> wrote:
Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen wrote:
If you write custom serializer/deserializer and keep a serialversion you can do whatever you want :)
Indeed, custom serialization is probably the way to go.
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