Passivation to database

[chrisr1]

Apologies if I have posted this to the wrong group.
Where I work, till recently we used an old in-house written EJB container. When SFSBeans were passivated, the container serialized the beans and wrote them to the database as a blob. Because the database was on a remote machine accessed via a 16Mbit Token ring, the performance of just moving that data to and from the database was noticable. NB Some of our SFSBeans were a bit large!! (not recommended)
Anyway, we made a simple modification to the passivation mechanism whereby it 'gzip'ped the serialized byte array before sending it over the wire to the db. This made a huge improvement to scalability.
I don't know if JBoss does this already or whether it could make use of this at all.

Regards

[marc.fleury]

it would be useful, although we use the filesystem to store the beans

Check the filepersistencemanager for beans and apply your trick to submit a patch (new class in this case)