From: Owen L. Astrachan <ola@news.cs.duke.edu>
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  Date: 30 Apr 1999 04:05:32 GMT

Re: Object Serialization

In article <7gb6jd$ir5$1@news.duke.edu>, Philip K. Warren <pkw@duke.edu> wrote:
>Can anyone offer any advice on Object Serialization?  We would prefer to
>send our maze as an object over the network instead of making a huge
>text-based message that would describe all of the connections, rooms in our
>maze and then build it from scratch on the client.  However, after making
>much of the code implement Serializable and testing it on our server, it
>kept saying that we were overrunning the stack and the server would die.
>
>Has anyone been able to get this working in their programs?  Can anyone
>offer any advice on sending these types of objects over the network?
>
>Thanks.
>
>-- Philip
>
>


I haven't looked in a while, but when I was reading about serialization
last year it was notorious for being dumb when it comes to serializing
linked structures and blowing the stack with basically a chain of
recursive calls.

I could be wrong.

Owen Astrachan