java serializes objects in a well-known and published manner (there’s a spec).
what im looking for is a library that can parse a binary blob of serialized objects into something like a graph of apache beanutils DynaBean
such a library would be useful in case i want to “read” (and work with) serialized objects without having the classes themselves in the classpath (or, as in my case, because the classes were refactored and renamed rendering old data unreadable …)
What is wrong with XML / JSON / BSON ? Well defined, widely accepted and language agnostic formats. There is a ton of serialisation libraries with different flavours