A serialization library with built-in support for forward-backward compatibility (schema evolution) and validation.

Documentation:

1. http://www.protostuff.io/

Benchmarks:

1. http://hperadin.github.io/jvm-serializers-report/report.html

Usage (maven)

1. When you generate schemas for your classes

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.protostuff</groupId>
  <artifactId>protostuff-core</artifactId>
  <version>1.5.2</version>
</dependency>

2. Runtime schemas

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.protostuff</groupId>
  <artifactId>protostuff-runtime</artifactId>
  <version>1.5.2</version>
</dependency>

Questions/Concerns/Suggestions

• subscribe to http://groups.google.com/group/protostuff/

Requirements

Java 1.6 or higher

Build Requirements

Maven 3.2.3 or higher

Developing with eclipse

mvn install && mvn eclipse:eclipse
# Open eclipse, import existing project, navigate to the protostuff module you're after, then hit 'Finish'.