[infinispan-dev] Implementing Hot Rod using Google Protocol Buffers?

[Galder Zamarreno]

Hi,

In a previous email, Bela suggested having a look at Google Protocol 
Buffers for implementing Hot Rod.

I had a brief look at Google Protocol Buffers and at first glance, the 
most obvious advantage is that it abstract the lower level protocol 
details and generate higher level code in different languages: Java, 
C++, Python.

Another thing I've noted is that it does seem to handle different 
versions of the protocol in a transparent way, as indicated in "A bit of 
history" section in 
http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/overview.html

Once we're all happy with the protocol itself, I think it might be worth 
doing a small prototype for example with a put operation and an a 
cluster formation event and see how it works.

What do people think? Anyone with Google Protocol Buffers experience 
that could provide us with 1st hand advice?

Cheers,
-- 
Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Engineer
Infinispan, JBoss Cache