Cross-platform and language (de)serialization

Question

I\'m looking for a way to serialize a bunch of C++ structs in the most convenient way so that the serialization is portable across C++ and Java (at a minimum) and across 32bit/6

Answer 1

I'd suggest saving the data with SQLite database. The structs can be stored as database rows in SQLite tables.

The resulting database file is binary compatible across many different platforms and can be stored as a BLOB in your main database. I believe the file size is comparable to compressed XML file with the same data, but memory usage during processing will be significantly less than XML DOM.