Friday, July 16, 2010

Coherence, ReflectionPofSerializer now supports POF extractor

A technical article related to Oracle Coherence.

A year ago I have implemented and open sourced ReflectionPofSerializer. This class has saved me from implementing thousands of lines of boring serialization code for various Filters, EntryProcessors, Aggregators , Invocables and other mobile objects in Coherence.
Recently I was asked about POF extrator support in ReflectionPofSerializer. My answer was no, it doesn't support extraction from POF directly. But it turns out what ReflectionPofSerializer can be easily extended to support it. A bit of coding and woala, let me introduce ReflectionPofExtrator.

Full text of article is available at GridDynamics blog - http://blog.griddynamics.com/2010/07/coherence-reflectionpofserializer-now.html