[2216] in java-interest
Re: Sending an object across the net...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Wed Sep 27 02:42:59 1995
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 21:50:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: Derek Hamner <dhamner@email.unc.edu>
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.950922141229.123443C-100000@login0.isis.unc.edu>
On Fri, 22 Sep 1995, Derek Hamner wrote:
> I have written simple client & server based on the sun.net classes and I
> would like to know if it would be possible to extend the
> DataInput/OutputStream classes to accommodate more complex types. I
> would like to be able to send any simple object across the network, and
> then reconstruct it on the other side. Is this possible?
>
> Any help or pointers to past discussions on this topic would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
Not using datainput/output, but... I'm currently working on a compiler
for a subset of ASN.1 generating encoders for the PER and BER. This will
generate objects that can encode and decode themselves, as opposed to
taking arbitrary objects and serialising them (java's reflective
operators are too weak to do this)
Simon
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