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February 2005 General Meeting
Date:   Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Time:  7:00 pm
Location:  North York Public Library, Room 2 / 3, see map for details
Topics:   Serialization and Deserialization
Speaker:   Michael Lant

The topic involves the process of taking objects and streaming them to XML and then taking the XML and streaming them back into objects.

Michael has been working extensively with this in .Net over the last year and has found a myriad of applications ranging from the simple storage of data in .config files to the communication of very complex data and commands between middleware and client applications. The data and commands are in the form of objects serialized to XML that are re-instantiated on either the client or the server. Michael has used this method extensively through Web Services to vastly simplify Web Service interfaces by reducing the entire interface between complex client applications and their corresponding, and equally complex middleware applications to one or two Web Methods that invoke a wide range of process in middleware using XML.

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