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Re: Sending Objects Over Sockets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (p1nadeau@linux.stevens-tech.edu)
Fri Jun 23 11:23:05 1995
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 10:55:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: p1nadeau@linux.stevens-tech.edu
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <9506231348.AA08178@antioch.imonics.com>
On Fri, 23 Jun 1995, Gregory Zoller - Imonics Development wrote:
>
> In order to efficiently bundle objects and transmit them over
> a socket (without converting everything to ascii), it would be
> nice to have "pack" and "unpack" methods that would convert
> data to/from a byte array.
>
I'm no expert on either RPC or Java, but it sounds a lot like
ONC-RPC's XDR (eXternal Data Representation). Maybe there's a potential
tie-in to Java possible...
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