On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 12:24 -0400, Mark Pimentel wrote: > 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?
No .. we need to support multiple of them :). These binary serializations have diff perf characteristics for different payloads. In our case that amounts to writing a StAX parser and serializer for the format. Quite straightforward really ;-). Sanjiva.