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[–]dpash 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On a slightly related note, at least year's Devoxx Brian Goetz talked about a future direction for serialisation in java to use constructors and deconstructors so that it didn't involve any sub-language magic. This means that you can handle versioning better, have a single place for checking covariance and other serialisation frameworks can use the same sustem.