Re: [Boost-users] Re: Is there a binary serialization class ?

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-03 11:06:33

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 16:11:32 +0200 (CEST), Volker Boerchers wrote
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Georgios Diamantopoulos wrote:
> CORBA (omg.org) uses CDR (Common Data Representation) in its 
> transport protocol.  In the (free) ACE framework
> (http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html) it is generally used for 
> sending binary data over the wire.
> 
> Since CDR is a standard and there are many implementations of it it might
> be an alternative.

During the second serialization review there were proposals, discussions, and
some code of a CDR type archive that would be portable.  This code was more of
a demonstration, and hasn't been refined to the point where it can be included
in the library, but it is something someone that really has a need should do...

Jeff