Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe17.iad.POSTED!8ad76e89!not-for-mail From: Arved Sandstrom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Top 10 Java Serialization Interview Question References: <4db7d8a4$0$77723$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> In-Reply-To: <4db7d8a4$0$77723$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 26 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsgroups-download.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:15:59 UTC Organization: Public Usenet Newsgroup Access Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:15:58 -0300 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3299 On 11-04-27 05:49 AM, Esmond Pitt wrote: > On 24/04/2011 1:39 PM, buddy s wrote: >> I have shared my experience with Serialization in java in this blog > > Evidently you don't actually *have* any worthwhile experience with > Serialization to be of any use to anybody else. Your answers to > questions 3,6,7,9,and 10 contain serious errors and omissions, and the > entire thing is mis-spelt and grammatically incorrect. I wouldn't accept > any of this from an interviewee. > > It's also curious that your 'top 10' list contains 13 items. #13 merely > repeats #4. > > Fail. Even if it were all grammatically correct, and error-free, what's the value of the post? Zero - there's nothing there that you don't get from official Sun/Oracle documentation, and the official documentation doesn't obscure this information. Some great blogs out there do nothing but rework existing material, adding no information but vastly improving the organization and presentation. I'm all for those blogs and articles. This (and others like it) isn't one of them. AHS