Project Goals

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The primary goal of this project is to create communication protocol/data format with the following characteristics:

Universal - Suitable for any type of data, persistent storage or streaming purposes
Independent - Not tightly linked to particular spoken language or infrastructure/programming language
Flexible - Support for data transformations, compatibility and extensibility
Effective - Data compactness and compression support for plain binary and structured data

Project include both protocol design and development of prototype implementation.

Protocol Design

Protocol design should cover following areas:

Data structure - How to store/stream data
Data types - Declaration of data types and build-in types
Data transformations - Support for data transformations, like compression, encryption and so on

Free and open source prototype implementation in Java is currently underway. It should provide following outputs:

Basic library - Library providing support for handling data encoded in the protocol itself
Catalog of types - Catalog service providing access to declaration of types
Framework - Local service providing various functions for applications
Editor tool - Basic tool for viewing and edition
Sample applications and files - Applications and files for demonstration purposes