I am wondering what serialized mechanism should we choose when dealing with object transferring over the network. What are the pros and cons ? I know most of the time we use JSON or XML for AJAX s...

msgpack seems to be an extremely fast, if extremely new format for data serialisation. Does it have a recognised MIME type yet? If not, what should be used in the interim?

I am new to AVRO and please excuse me if it is a simple question. I have a use case where I am using AVRO schema for record calls. Let's say I have avro schema { "name": "abc", "namepsace": "x...

according to Apache AVRO project, "Avro is a serialization system". By saying data serialization system, does it mean that avro is a product or api? also, I am not quit sure about what a data seri...

I would like to know the merits & de-merits of Google Protocol Buffers JSON XML I want to implement one common framework for two application, one in Perl and second in Java. So, would...

I've got some code for Windows Phone 7, for a RSS app: private RSSSettings DeserializeSettings(string data) { RSSSettings rsssettings; try { var ser = new DataContractSerializer(typeof(RSSSet...

When creating XML I'm wondering why the CDATA blocks are uses rather than just escaping the data. Is there something allowed in a CDATA block that can't be escaped and placed in a regular tag? &lt...