Hi, I'm trying to use the boost::serialization text_iarchive/text_oarchive, in a way very similar to the tutorial (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/libs/serialization/doc/tutorial.html). I have confirmed that the data that gets serialized is identical to what is read in when I deserialize (in the code below inbound_data_ is identical to the contents of the text_oarchive stream), however the serialize function does not seem to work correctly. The code to deserialize looks like: std::string archive_data(&inbound_data_[0], inbound_data_.size()); std::istringstream archive_stream(archive_data); boost::archive::text_iarchive archive(archive_stream); archive >> t; where the corresponding serialize() function is: template<class Archive> void Blackboard::serialize(Archive & ar, const unsigned int version) { ar & gameController.our_team; } (gameController.our_team is a member of the 'Blackboard' class) when serializing, our_team is equal to 1, when deserializing, it gets set to zero. Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong? I can post more details of the code if that would be helpful. Thanks! -- Dave