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Can Java serialization be used with Gemfire/Geode, without deploying classes on the server?

The goal is to avoid having to deploy java classes to Gemfire/Geode servers.

The use-case only requires storage/retrieval of serialized objects. The keys would be Strings. There would be no use of server-side functions or OQL.

I'm aware that Gemfire/Geode PDX doesn't (in most cases) require java classes to be deployed to the Gemfire/Geode server. I'm curious what is possible when using plain old Java serialization.

Solution

  • As long as there is no server side logic that will require deserializing the values, then I think it should work. Besides not using functions and OQL, and CacheListeners or CacheWriters would also require deserializing values on the server.