Re: java serialization alternative

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

Oh boy.  yet another serialization 'standard'...  add it to the list
with YAML I guess.

Standards?  You want standards? We got LOTS of standards...
> 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?
>>
>>
>> --
>> [ Rodrick R. Brown ]
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