RE: [Rails-devel] XML data files

[Brett L. <wak...@ea...>]

>> >However, for saving the state of the game, I think that Java 
>> Serialization 
>> >would be a better choice. The volume of data involved is 
>> relatively small 
>> >and the coding for straightforward serialization is simple, 
>> certainly 
>> >several times less effort than mapping all objects in and out of XML.
>> 
>> Sounds good. I agree that the mapping a save file to XML will 
>> probably be a lot of work. So, 
>> if there's a simpler way, I'd favor using it.
>
>Yes, but I think that we also need the other save-related option 
>originally proposed by Brett: a log of all actions performed. 
>If only for the post-mortem and/or publication of a game!
>(I've myself replayed quite some games published on Internet).


My main motivator here, is that there's a Java client for playing PBEM=
 Diplomacy (i forget the name at the moment) and it allows this mechanism=
 of replaying past games.

I'll see if I can't dig up the name of the app and, if it's open source,=
 take a peek at how they handle this problem.



---Brett.