A marshalling interface implemented by entity classes that represent keys as tuples. Since
MarshalledTupleKeyEntity
objects are instantiated using Java deserialization, no particular constructor is required by classes that implement this interface.
Note that a marshalled tuple key extractor is somewhat less efficient than a non-marshalled key tuple extractor because more conversions are needed. A marshalled key extractor must convert the entry to an object in order to extract the key fields, while an unmarshalled key extractor does not.
@author Mark Hayes
@see TupleTupleMarshalledBinding
@see com.sleepycat.bind.serial.TupleSerialMarshalledBinding