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From: Al B. Snell <alaric@a...> >...XML isn't good enough to realistically embed >binary objects inside it, so they have to go over a seperate connection >with some complex referencing mechanism. Actually it seems like issues of how defaultable/compressible the data is, and how inheritence is handled, which determine whether an XML document or a binary document is smaller. The specifics of how things are done seem to dominate theory-based expectations. "Even though an XML encoding, term for term, takes significantly more space than a binary encoding, the archives produced by the new streams are typically between 10x and 100x smaller than their serialized counterparts. This is due to a comprehensive system for excluding default information from the archives. " http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/persistence/index.html Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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