Pass Object as payload

[ashfaqframewala]

What's the best practice to pass a Java object as a payload? One way which I can think of is define an interface in the module and provide getters and setters to access the members. However, in this case every call to a getter or setter will result in a remote call.

Is there a better way to achieve this?

Thanks,
Ashfaq

[matthew]

I'm not really sure what you exactly want to do here. Did you look at slice classes? This seems to be more what you are looking for. For example:

// Slice
class Foo
{
   void dosomething();
   int a;
   string b;
};

interface Bar
{
    void doit(Foo f);
};

Calling Bar::doit will pass the class Foo by value, not by proxy, over the wire. I suggest looking in the Ice manual for more details.