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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1999
Peter C. Bahrs, Austin, TX (US);
Raphael Poole Chancey, Austin, TX (US);
Barry Alan Feigenbaum, Austin, TX (US);
Manish Mahesh Modh, Round Rock, TX (US);
Sean Michael Sundberg, Cedar Park, TX (US);
John Allen Hubert Woolfrey, Mississauga, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus in a data processing system for serialization data. A serializer receives a data element for serialization, wherein the data element includes a class name string. Responsive to receiving the data element, the serializer replaces the class name string with a code having a smaller size than the class name string to form a modified data element. Responsive to forming the modified data element, in which the serializer serializes the modified data element. The serialized data is transmitted and deserialized by deserializer which replaces the indicator with the class name.