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

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