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Re: SAX2: DTDDeclHandler (minimalist position)

  • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
  • To: "Bill la Forge" <b.laforge@j...>, <xml-dev@i...>
  • Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 12:31:00 -0500

Re: SAX2: DTDDeclHandler (minimalist position)
At 10:57 AM -0500 3/31/99, Bill la Forge wrote:
>From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
>>>Using objects for constants can also cause problems with persistent
>>>data, if you were depending on a singularity and testing with ==.
>>>
>>
>>This isn't a problem with the syntax I've described because there is only a
>>fixed set of objects in which identity comparisons are the same as equality
>>comparisons.
>
>
>How do you maintain singularities when deserializing a JavaBean which
>contains a reference to one of these objects?
>
>That is to say, you have a constant which references an object. No problem.
>
>Now you have a bean with a variable which has been assigned the constant
>value. No problem.
>
>Now you save the bean. No problem.
>
>Now you deserialize the bean. No problem.
>
>Now you test the value of the variable in the bean with ==. Woops. The test
>always returns false.
>

You can use custom readObject() and writeObject() methods to keep
singletons single if necessary.  I discuss this very example (with a
different singleton) in Chapter 11 of Java I/O.


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