Generic Persistence Interfaces

Commerce Server 2009 defines a set of generic Component Object Model (COM) interfaces related to object persistence. The following table lists the generic interfaces.

Interface

Description

IPersistXML

Saves data to an XML-formatted string, and loads data from an XML-formatted string.

IPersistDictionary

Saves data to a Dictionary object, and loads data from a Dictionary object.

IPersistStreamInit

Saves data to a stream, and loads data from a stream. This is the form of persistence used in the ATL Pipeline Wizard.