Talk:Marshalling (computer science)

Reference or value

This article needs to be expanded on the difference between marshalling by reference and marshalling by value. Marshalling by value is roughly equivalent to serialization, while marshalling by reference is not. Medinoc (talk) 14:38, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

The concepts of serialization and marshalling seem basically the same. The serialization article says that it is also called marshalling. Conversely, the marshalling article says that marshalling is also called serialization. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Neverdream (talk • contribs) 20:09, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree to merge. Despite what the RFC says, what I (think I) know is that neither serialization nor marshalling save the class definitions in Java. Both save the object state, not the codebase. AFAIK the classes must still be available via a classloader, otherwise deserialization will fail for an unknown type. If there is any difference between the two methods, perhaps it's that marshalling is done via accessor methods while serialization uses some JVM magic to restore the state, even in private fields with no accessors. But that's just for java. Generally I think the two terms are synonymous. Alex.g (talk) 09:01, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Marshalling in COM

I'm currently reading up on marshalling in COM and by the time I'm finished I will probably be able to write a few paragraphs on how it works. If I choose to do so, should I include it here, on marshalling (computer science), on Component Object Model or as a separate article marshalling in COM? Shinobu (talk) 04:49, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe you could put the theory under marshalling and the COM-specific implementation details in COM. Alex.g (talk) 11:10, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, in fact, in spanish the term defined under "Marshalling" is the definition we use for Serialization and is used this way in a lot of books and sources in the Internet