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[Bryan Atsatt]

Sure, but it isn't like this problem has no solution. RMI (JRMP or IIOP)
will marshall classes, and surely some enterprising developer will
implement a solution using our very own Repository model (marshall an
"import"+class-name+repository-name back to the originator, or better
yet, to a large centralized repository, etc.).

// Bryan

Stanley M. Ho wrote:
> Bryan Atsatt wrote:
>> And we haven't done so in the spec, either. I think we should.
>
> Query was not declared as Serializable in the spec because it was
> unclear if we wanted to allow custom Query implementations and how it
> might impact these custom Query implementations.
>
> Now that we have decided to allow custom Query implementations, if we
> make the Query serializable, the custom implementations will have to
> implement serialization properly, but I think this is still okay.
> However, if the query is serialized for it to be sent over the wire to a
> remote repository, then its usefulness is pretty much limited to the
> default query, because it is very unlikely that the remote repository
> will happen to have the custom implementation classes in place for the
> remote repository to deserialize the custom query properly.
>
> If the EG still thinks this is a useful thing to add, I can incorporate
> it into the next revision of the specification.
>
> - Stanley
>