With these serialization libraries, do any of them have a facility that allows you to specify a wire format and an application format, with recipes for converting one to the other?
I haven't used these very seriously but a problem I had a while back was that that the wire format was not what the applications wanted to use, but a good application format was to space-inefficient for wire.
As far as I could see there was not a great way to do this. You could rewrite wire<->app converter in every app, or have a converter program and now you essentially have two wire formats and need to put this extra program and data movement into workflows, or write a library and maintain bindings for all your languages.
I haven't used these very seriously but a problem I had a while back was that that the wire format was not what the applications wanted to use, but a good application format was to space-inefficient for wire.
As far as I could see there was not a great way to do this. You could rewrite wire<->app converter in every app, or have a converter program and now you essentially have two wire formats and need to put this extra program and data movement into workflows, or write a library and maintain bindings for all your languages.