<!--$Id: cs_bdb_serial.so,v 1.10 2003/09/03 18:34:35 gburd Exp $--> <!--Copyright 1997-2003 by Sleepycat Software, Inc.--> <!--All rights reserved.--> <!--See the file LICENSE for redistribution information.--> <html> <head> <title>Berkeley DB Reference Guide: Serialized Object Storage</title> <meta name="description" content="Berkeley DB: An embedded database programmatic toolkit."> <meta name="keywords" content="embedded,database,programmatic,toolkit,b+tree,btree,hash,hashing,transaction,transactions,locking,logging,access method,access methods,Java,C,C++"> </head> <body bgcolor=white> <table width="100%"><tr valign=top> <td><h3><dl><dt>Berkeley DB Reference Guide:<dd>Java API</dl></h3></td> <td align=right><a href="../bdb/cs_bdb_collection.html"><img src="../../images/prev.gif" alt="Prev"></a><a href="../toc.html"><img src="../../images/ref.gif" alt="Ref"></a><a href="../bdb/faq.html"><img src="../../images/next.gif" alt="Next"></a> </td></tr></table> <p> <h3 align=center>Serialized Object Storage</h3> <h3>Storage of Serialized Objects</h3> <p>Serialization of an object graph includes class information as well as instance information. If more than one instance of the same class is serialized as separate serialization operations then the class information exists more than once. To eliminate this inefficiency the <a href="../../java/com/sleepycat/bdb/StoredClassCatalog.html">StoredClassCatalog</a> class will store the class format for all database records of format <a href="../../java/com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/serial/SerialFormat.html">SerialFormat</a> . The StoredClassCatalog must be opened within the environment before the SerialFormat instances. Remember that if your databases will be running within transactions you must open them within a transaction. Refer to the <code>shipment</code> sample code for examples (the class <code>SampleDatabase</code> in <code>examples_java/src/com/sleepycat/examples/bdb/shipment/basic/SampleDatabase.java</code> is a good place to start understanding how to setup this type of environment).</p> <table width="100%"><tr><td><br></td><td align=right><a href="../bdb/cs_bdb_collection.html"><img src="../../images/prev.gif" alt="Prev"></a><a href="../toc.html"><img src="../../images/ref.gif" alt="Ref"></a><a href="../bdb/faq.html"><img src="../../images/next.gif" alt="Next"></a> </td></tr></table> <p><font size=1><a href="../../sleepycat/legal.html">Copyright (c) 1996-2003</a> <a href="http://www.sleepycat.com">Sleepycat Software, Inc.</a> - All rights reserved.</font> </body> </html>