I had fun but my needs changed before I finished noodling here.

You're welcome to peruse the archive...

An evolution of the Three Rings 'export' serialization system for Java and C#.

(Work in progress! None of this works yet. Not actively being developed presently.)

Also: presently depends on ooo-specific library versions... TODO.

• A larger set of built-in types including standard Collection types.
• Full type information is transmitted, including generics.
• Able to pass-over an entire type if it's unknown when importing. The stream's metadata is used exclusively; local types are used as data containers but cannot affect how the stream is read.
• "stretch goal", but sorta the key to the whole thing: be able to convert between XML and DAT formats without access to the classes that were exported.