You could try protocol buffers...
http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/

On Sep 23, 1:11 pm, Evan Ruff <[email protected]> wrote:
> You know,
>
> I would be awesome if we could get some sort of native C++ system
> service to solve this issue. I don't really care WHAT the
> implementation is, so long as it's blazing fast.
>
> Is that even part of the Android thing?
>
> E
>
> On Sep 23, 4:07 pm, WoodManEXP <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Evan, As far as I can tell there is little support native to Android
> > for what you are lookng for. It has good basic http communication
> > support but not much higher level abstractions. That being said you
> > could write a layer to do the serialization into a stream and then
> > HTTP it to the server to be deserialized. On the server it would
> > reconstruct from a stream you get out of an HTTP POST payload. Its not
> > fancy but it would definitly work. I simply POST simple XML to the
> > server and DOM parse it out rather then trying to send objects.
>
> > I imagine Google's concern is two-fold a) resource constraints for the
> > development team to add such support and b) Its alot of s'ware to add
> > to the system at this time.
>
> > Sorry to not be of more help.
>
> > On Sep 23, 3:40 pm, Evan Ruff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I have a Tomcat Server in front of a Servlet that gets/stores
> > > information in a MySQL Database. My Android application needs to get/
> > > put information on to this server. I control both ends of the
> > > communication, so I've basically been exploring the "best" way to send
> > > information back and forth. So far, I've tried Jackson for JSON and
> > > the native Java Serialization packages. My object is relatively
> > > complex and completely serializable. I have no desire to write a
> > > "custom" guy at all, as I doubt I'd actually be able to improve on
> > > most of the packages.
>
> > > Times are from when the response lands on the Android device until the
> > > Object is fully cast:
>
> > > Jackson for JSON 1.0: 17.176 seconds.
> > > Native Java Serialization: 36.132 seconds.
>
> > > WOW. Java Serialization is a D-O-G.
>
> > > So with that being said, are there any other strategies/packages I
> > > should try to get information to/from my server?
>
> > > Thanks!
>
> > > Evan
>
>
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