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Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:50:11 -0400
From: Peter Snow <peter.snow@aya.yale.edu>
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Subject: Re: Storing objects in the disk cache
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Al,

Thanks. Answers my question. Thanks for pointing me in the right
direction (and taking the time to write it - if you are the author).

Peter


Alistair Forbes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Have a look at http://sindome.org/JCS/JCSRemoteCacheHowTo.doc . The last
> part of the document  describes what happens.
> 
> Regards
> Al
> 
> On 6/18/06, Peter Snow <peter.snow@aya.yale.edu> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a question about how the disk cache stores objects.
>>
>> Suppose I have two caches - one for Book objects and one for Bookcase
>> objects. Bookcase objects can contain collections of Books.
>>
>> Presumably, in a MemoryCache what are stored are references to objects
>> on the heap. So, in the Book cache, the values in the cache are pointers
>> to the memory addresses of the actual Book objects sitting out on the
>> heap. The Bookcase cache would work the same way. If a Bookcase object
>> contained some Book objects that also happened to be in the Book cache
>> as well, the cache for this Bookcase object would contain references to
>> the same Book memory addresses on the heap. In other words, we wouldn't
>> have duplicates of the same Book objects in both caches, only duplicates
>> of their references or pointers.
>>
>> Now if the contents of both caches get serialized to the same disk cache
>> will we have a similar "duplicate-free" storage of each cache's object
>> graph? Will Books contained by a Bookcase object be simply be pointers
>> to the same Book addresses that are in the serialized Book cache? Or
>> will the contents of the Bookcase cache and the Book cache be
>> independent of one another? In other words, would it be possible to have
>> duplicates of a particular Book in the disk cache?
>>
>> Thanks for any insight.
>>
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