What is the fastest way to share data structures between Java and C#? I want something where I can literally send a ‘car’ object or a ‘foo’ object and have it serialized and deserialized on both server and client.
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What is the fastest way to share data structures between Java and C#? I want something where I can literally send a ‘car’ object or a ‘foo’ object and have it serialized and deserialized on both server and client.
WSDL (SOAP) is fairly interchangeable. If you want something less chatty, anything like Google’s ‘protocol buffers’, ‘ICE’ (ZeroC), etc offer interchangeable binary serialization and code generation.
For .NET / C#, there are currently two viable protocol buffers implementations here; protosharp is essentially inactive and incomplete) – either would be fine, but neither currently has a complete RPC stack, so you’d have to handle message passing yourself.