WDDX
Invented by Allaire Corp. (makers of the HomeSite HTML editor and the ColdFusion application development environment), WDDX is “. . . an XML-based technology that enables the exchange of complex data between web programming languages . . .”[1] It was created in 1998 as an open standard designed specifically to simplify data exchange across different platforms, and it has quickly gained popularity with web developers for its elegance and ease of use.
[1] OpenWDDX.org: The Web Distributed Data Exchange. “Web Distributed Data Exchange FAQ.” Available from the Internet: http://www.openwddx.org/faq/
WDDX works by converting language-specific data structures into their corresponding XML representations. These XML data structures are text-based, ...
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