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

From: Mauricio Gomes (mg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-03 13:02:43

On Sep 3, 2004, at 1:06 PM, Jeff Garland wrote:

> 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...

Hi,

But if CDR is not used then do you guys know what is ?

Because, please correct me if I am wrong (I am just reading and 
learning with this thread), isn't this functionality (machine agnostic 
serialization) crucial to frameworks like ACE and to specifications 
like CORBA and to any cross-platform network communication library ?

Thank you for your attention,
Mauricio Gomes
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