[BATCHEE-66] store checkpoint variables etc in human readable format

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.2-incubating
• Fix Version/s: 0.3-incubating
• Component/s: jbatch-core
• Assignee: Mark Struberg
• Reporter: Mark Struberg
• Created: 05/Sep/15 09:50
• Updated: 15/Jan/16 08:32
• Resolved: 11/Nov/15 13:49

Description

Currently we store checkpoint variables and startup parameters as serialized binary. We could improve the portability and maintainability if we use a human readable format instead and only fall back to java serialisation as last resort