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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1999
Horst Heistermann, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chia-Hsin Li, San Jose, CA (US);
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Known techniques for generating serial information to represent program objects (serialization) and to recreate program objects from the serial information (deserialization) often impose limitations on the changes that may be made to the class structure or definition of the program object. Many changes to the class structure introduce incompatibilities that prevent a one version of a program object from being recovered from serial information that represent a different version of the program object. Techniques are disclosed that overcome this difficulty by allowing the serialization and deserialization processes to be adaptive according to the version of the program object.