Detaching and Attaching Persistent Objects on Serialization
March 25th, 2009 by Stefan Fußenegger | Published in Hibernate, Java, WicketToday I’ve received a mail by someone interested in a serialization mechanism I described some days ago. This mechanism was implemented to avoid dealing with detached Hibernate objects in different HTTP (i.e. Wicket) requests (it’s not restricted to Hibernate though). The idea is quite simple: detach objects if they are persistent, serialize them if they are transient, deserialize and attach for the next request – all transparently. So far, this isn’t very special and doesn’t justify such a complicated approach. However, it’s the only way of attaching and detaching object graphs that consist of transient and persistent objects I know.
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