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[Simone Bordet]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:55 PM, Chuck Davis <cjgunzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Note also that your requirement is to use blocking, stream-based,
>> byte[]-based APIs.
>> If you had chosen a data format for which a non-blocking parser based
>> on ByteBuffer APIs existed, you would be so happy about the JDK 9
>> APIs.
>
> Like what for instance?  I'm looking for suggestions/strategies how best to adapt to the future.  It's very unlikely I'm going to convert all my data to text before sending across the wire.

Starting point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data_serialization_formats

CBOR looks promising and it's a standard.
If you don't need references, then many other choices.

I don't know the status of the libraries around CBOR though, so yes, I
understand the appeal of Java Serialization.

As I said, a JDK bridge between ByteBuffer and [Input|Output]Stream
will solve a million cases.

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Simone Bordet
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