Adding durability to in-memory data structures

Question

What are some of the popular techniques you can adopt to add durability to your in-memory data structures (ie) if the process crashes, you can preserve all previously ex

Answer 1

Yes, you would want to serialize the data to some format - xml, binary, whatever. Depending on the programming languagem this may be built in for you. Java has ObjectStreams, .NET has XmlSerializer and also a BinaryFormatter.