java serialization alternative

Rodrick Brown <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:18:04 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.java.advanced
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Do any of you guys have experience with Java serialization and what
kind of overheads it causes?  As far as I know, it produces very large
messages and is not particularly fast, so I am concerned about that
given that it is pervasively used in our system core for sending
messages between daemons over our messaging API.

One possible alternative is http://xstream.codehaus.org/ which can be
tuned to produce fairly small messages (by aliasing class names and
types for example).   However, I have no sense of the speed.  I will
do some performance tests.

Comments, questions, etc?


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