On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Luc Maisonobe <luc.maison...@free.fr> wrote: >> Is there such a thing as short-term serialization? > > Yes, of course, and this what many people need. This is what James > called marshalling/unmarshalling. This is a standard way to communicate > between some applications that share a common basis. Of course [math] is > not a distributed computing environment, but it should not prevent > people from being used in a distributed environment. >
For long-term serialization needs, I would suggest instead that we introduce (perhaps it's there already, I'm not familiar with the entire codebase) exporters/importers which support some industry-standard file format(s) (such as those used by R for example). Now, I would only suggest we introduce these where it makes sense, such as for larger data structures like matrices. For something with a few fields, not so much. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
