Re: java serialization alternative

Rodrick, you might be interested in Protocol Buffers. We just open sourced
them: http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/

Compared to serialization, PBs will make your system more efficient and more
maintainable.

Bob

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Rodrick Brown <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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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