Interlanguage binary data streams: A C#.NET to Java prototype

Author

Pendergast, Mark O.

Author_Institution

Inf. Syst. & Oper. Manage. Dept., Florida Gulf Coast Univ., Fort Myers, FL, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

9-12 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

This paper presents a prototype application programming interface for transmitting binary data between two different languages, Java and C#, along with a standard for encoding the data types. The standard calls for big-endian data transmission with either UTF8 or UTF16 character encoding and LEB128 string length encoding. The prototype API was found to be as efficient as Java´s binary data streams and far more efficient than text based data exchange (XML, TSV, and CSV). This standard is flexible enough to support other languages such as C, C++.

Keywords

C language; Java; application program interfaces; electronic data interchange; API; C#.NET; Java binary data streams; Java prototype; LEB128 string length encoding; UTF16 character encoding; UTF8 character encoding; application programming interface; big-endian data transmission; data type encoding standard; interlanguage binary data streams; text based data exchange; Arrays; Encoding; Java; Prototypes; Servers; Standards; Writing; C#; Java; LEB; UTF; big-endian; binary data streams; little-endian; network order; polygot programming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SoutheastCon 2015

Conference_Location

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.2015.7132934

Filename

7132934