Re: [Rails-devel] Starting on a client/server

[John A. T. <jat...@ja...>]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Brett Lentz wrote:
> That's not exactly how I read the function of java.net.Socket or
> java.nio.SocketChannel.
>
> I'd need to double-check the API docs, to be sure, but I believe what are
> passed are text representations of each object. So, we'll need to verify
> that the default toString() method is an acceptable representation for each
> object, or we'll need to override toString() with our own representation
> that does pass the necessary data.

Sockets are byte channels, and you can send whatever you want across them, 
such as serialized objects.

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