What is the best way to transmit Java objects over a network
- by tomdee
I am trying to transmit objects of a particular class from one server to another.
The options I'm looking at are:
Serialize the data as JSON and send
it over the wire using HTTP, and
de-serialize at the other end.
Serialize the data into some binary form and transmit using TCP
sockets.
What are the best practices in this area? What are the gotchas?
Ideally I would like the interface to be versioned, so the sender and receiver can be upgraded independently.
I'm considering the JSON approach as I already have code that will serialize/deserialize the objects into JSON.