1. A method of exchanging a serialized object, the method comprising: transmitting a message to an entity over a network; the message comprising a serialized object comprising: a data structure (“datastruct”) element representative of a data structure of an object, the datastruct element having a pair of datastruct tags, wherein the datastruct tags identify the datastruct element; contents of the datastruct between the datastruct tags, the contents comprising one or more data parameter elements representative of one or more data parameters of the object's data structure, each parameter element having a pair of parameter tags associated therewith, wherein each pair of parameter tags identifies a parameter element with which the pair of tags is associated, each parameter element having associated data between the parameter tags.