Hi everyone, Thanks for all your help so far. Binary serialization seems interesting. I'll read up on the topic further, but I think it'd be a good project.
One question: there are a few different standards for this... Are we leaning towards one over the others, or would we select the one with the best performance, interoperability, etc? Mark On 6/1/05, Srinath Perera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thilina create a Wiki and link it for the Task wiki page > put information/resources there .. > Thanks > Srinath > > On 6/1/05, Thilina Gunarathne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was also looking in to this BinarySerialization as a proposal for this > > google projects. Since somebody has come up with it now I'm thinking of > > doing HTTP chunking for Axis2, which will improve the efficiency of message > > delivary. What do u all think about it. > > > > Thanks & Regards, > > ~Thilina > > > > > > > > On 6/1/05, Paul Fremantle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Srinath/ Mark > > > > > > Nice idea. This is a hot area as the W3C are putting some effort into > > > binary XML right now. In addition to the links listed, I suggest you > > > look at Dennis Sosnoski's XBIS ( http://xbis.sourceforge.net/) and the > > > cbXML proposal from IBM. > > > > > (http://www.w3.org/2003/08/binary-interchange-workshop/presentations-ibm-cbxml.pdf > > > and > > http://www.w3.org/2003/08/binary-interchange-workshop/19-IBM-IBMPositionPaperBinaryXMLWorkshop-updated.html > > > > > > In fact you can find a lot of data here > > > > > http://www.w3.org/2003/08/binary-interchange-workshop/Report.html#papers > > > > > > Another reason this could be very important: > > > > > > My belief is that binary XML infoset only shows its real benefit with > > > a typed pull parser. The reason: suppose you have a binary encoding of > > > an integer, and then you use a string-based parser, you will end up > > > decoding the binary into an int, converting to a string for the parser > > > API and then back to an int in the deserialisation code. > > > > > > So we won't really know how fast binary XML is until we try it on a > > > platform like Axis2. > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > > > > > > > On 6/1/05, Srinath Perera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Mark; > > > > > > > > I feel > > http://wiki.apache.org/ws/FrontPage/Axis2/Tasks/BinarySerialization > > > > is quite a good bet. Nobody works on it right now. Mat be it a good > > > > summer project proposal > > > > > > > > 1) It is quite isolated .. so less trouble > > > > 2) it is important for Axis2 > > > > > > > > If you have any trouble in the work we will do our best to help. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Srinath > > > > > > > > > > > > On 6/1/05, Mark Pimentel < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I'm interested in doing a student project with Axis2 for Google's > > > > > Summer of Code program, an initiative aimed at introducing students to > > > > > Open Source Software Development > > > > > (http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html). I've > > wanted to become > > > > > involved with an open source project for a while now, and think that > > > > > this would be an excellent chance to contribute to Apache. > > > > > > > > > > Please let me know if you'd be interested in working with me in an > > > > > advisor role, or if you have ideas for possible summer projects. I > > > > > found a list of tasks on the Wiki (FrontPage/Axis2/Tasks), and am > > > > > interested in several of them, but don't know if they're already being > > > > > tackled by someone. > > > > > > > > > > More about me: I'm a rising senior at Carnegie Mellon University, > > > > > majoring in Electrical & Computer Engineering. I've done previous > > > > > work with web applications and web services, and consider myself a > > > > > flexible programmer. Of recent note, two friends and I took second > > > > > place in the national (US) finals of Microsoft's ImagineCup Software > > > > > Design Competition two weeks ago. My part of the project included > > > > > implementing .NET web services with a Pocket PC. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for your help! > > > > > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Mark F. Pimentel > > > > > Carnegie Mellon University > > > > > Electrical & Computer Engineering, Class of '06 > > > > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > "May the SourcE be with u" >
