No need to re-invent the wheel, you can use ASN.1. (Abstract Syntax Notation number One)
See http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/ for more information. I don't know if there are any open source java compilers. If you want to stay text based, I'd suggest considering XML again, since there are tools for java available. If you're just building a big distributed java app, then you don't have to worry at all about protocols :-) David Schutt _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
