[Mono-devel-list] protocol for CLI object serialization?

[Lluis Sanchez]

On dj, 2004-11-11 at 18:31 -0700, Okehee Goh wrote:
> Thank you .
> That is strange that the binary form isn't yet standardized even
> though I'm not sure that what's a case for that of JVM.
> Does it mean that the serialized output may not be completely
> compatible between the implementations of CLI such as CLR, SSCLI, and
> MONO?

They are compatible regarding the binary format, but some classes may
will not be compatible if they have a different internal structure. This
has been discussed in the list several times.

>  .NET team  doesn't open the format for that? 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:04:51 +0100, Lluis Sanchez <lluis at ximian.com> wrote:
> > On dj, 2004-11-11 at 15:43 -0700, Okehee Goh wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm wondering whether CLI also have a standard protocol for object
> > > serialization stream -- the binary format represented for serialized
> > > objects?
> > 
> > The binary format is not part of the standard, but it is documented:
> > http://primates.ximian.com/~lluis/dist/binary_serialization_format.htm
> > 
> > > I could find the protocol for Java object specification easily.
> > > (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/serialization/spec/protocol.html#wp8101)
> > > But, I can't find it for CLI.
> > > Does anyone point out it?
> > >
> > > Thank you so much in advance.
> > >
> > > Okehee
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