Obser - Java Object Serializer

This site is all about a Obser - a custom general purpose Java serializer speeding up the process of serializing/deserializing arbitary Java objects

Background

In search for a fast general purpose Java serializer I was not able to find a decent serializer that was feature complete.
There is Kryo and fast serialization.
Kryo, while fast, was not able to serialize all the objects I tried correctly. It also requires a non arg constructor for deserialization of objects.
Fast serialization appears to function only on Java7 and above and was not working at all when I tried it.
Thus I created Obser, a Java object serializer centered entirely around Unsafe.

Features (current and future releases)

Version 0.8.0
- Standalone JAR without any external dependencies
- serialization/deserialization to byte array and ByteBuffer working
Version 0.9.0
- Stream based serialization working
Version 1.0.0
- Full Test Cases

Limitations

Works only on Oracle Sun JDK/JRE Java6+
Only been tested on x86 / AMD64 systems

License

Apache License

Usage

Serialization

Obser os = ObserFactory.createObser(ObserEncoding.nativeEncoding());
byte[] out = new byte[1024*1024];
int size = os.serialize(objectToBeSerialized, out, 0);

Deserialization

byte[] in = ... // obtain the data
Obser os = ObserFactory.createObser(ObserEncoding.nativeEncoding());
Object deserializedObject = os.deserialize(in, 0);

Custom Serialization Logic

Use standard Java techniques.

implemente Externalizable
or provide readObject and writeObject methods
or provide writeReplace and readResolve methods

Source

obser-0.8.0-2013-02-06.zip - 0.8.0-SNAPSHOT
obser-0.9.0-2013-02-12.zip - 0.9.0-SNAPSHOT