[Cdk-devel] CDK serialization (was: KNIME Konstanz Open Source Days)

[Thorsten M. <Tho...@un...>]

Dear all,

Concerning the serialization of CDK objects I would suggest to not use
Java serialization or any other intransparent binary format. The reason
is quite simple: as soon as internal or external structures of the
objects are changed de-serialization will very likely fail (certainly
for standard Java serialization). This is is the reason why we urge to
use CML as serialization format for CDK in KNIME. If some
(non-important) information is missing it can (in principle) be replaced
quite easily by a default value.
I'm not sure if other serialization frameworks can handle such
situations well.
Other than that I'm really looking forward to the KOS Days and the CDK
development!

Best regards,

Thorsten

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