title: Serialised communication between languages
body: <p>My universities peer to peer communication course uses an in house client/server program for demonstration and (i think) extending it is part of the assessment. The program we use is written in java and uses serialisation for the network communication.</p>
  
  <p>To get a better grip I want to try reimplementing the protocol used in objective c, but googling around I cant find any information on using serialised data between languages. I would like to keep this as simple as possible, ideally be able to drop my replacement server/client onto a network and have it behave.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit</strong> Didnt actually ask a question there. </p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to communicate between the two serialised formats, How can I make this work without reverse engineering the format java uses. </p>