[TAPESTRY-1891] Tapestry IoC Service Proxies should be serializable

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.7
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.7
• Component/s: tapestry-core
• Assignee: Howard Lewis Ship
• Reporter: Howard Lewis Ship
• Created: 08/Nov/07 18:19
• Updated: 17/Nov/07 16:37
• Resolved: 17/Nov/07 16:37

Description

In HiveMind, the services proxies were serializable, and this is a useful feature for Tapestry IoC as well. The outer proxy should implement Externalizable and write a token into the stream; the token includes the service id. When the token is deserialized, it uses the service id to reconstitute the same (or equivalent) proxy. In this way, data objects that hold references to services can be serialized, or even transferred over RMI.