A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for serializing and de-serializing objects such that data may be transmitted between disparate systems otherwise having incompatible object definitions. The disparate systems may include different versions of the same system or completely different systems. Object graphs may be recursively broken down into primitive components, and the data may be reformatted as maps of primitive data chained together. The data may be transmitted to a disparate recipient system and reassembled into objects recognizable by the disparate recipient system. Various systems can then communicate with each other regardless of underlying data formats.