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Re: is there a memory overhead

From: Kohsuke Kawaguchi <Kohsuke.Kawaguchi_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:06:12 -0700

Shashi Garje <SGarje_at_cccis.com> wrote:
> Hi
> We are considering putting JAXB un-marshalled objects in the HttpSession. I
> would like to know whether there is an overhead associated with these
> objects in terms of the memory they use as compared to a barebones Java
> bean style object with the same getters and setters ?
> If there is an overhead, what are the characteristics of this overhead:
>
> - is it a fixed amount per object (and each contained object recursively)
> - is it a percentage

The generated impl classes are just ordinary Java bean classes in terms
of memory usage. So I wouldn't expect that much memory use compared with
hand-written Java bean objects.


regards,
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