[infinispan-dev] ProtoStream and ease of use

Mircea, Adrian and I had an IRC chat on ProtoStream and ProtoStuff. check out http://transcripts.jboss.org/channel/irc.freenode.org/%23infinispan/2013/... starting at 11:00 and finishing at 12:30 A short summary of what has been discussed: - ProtoStream is a good cross-platform solution but - complicated for the simple pure Java case - encourages a technical superclass (EJB 2 !!!!!) - ProtoStuff convention + annotation based approach https://code.google.com/p/protostuff/wiki/ProtostuffRuntime is nice for the pure Java case - ProtoStuff is many things and has a non ProtoBuf compliant format for cycle ref and polymorphism - ProtoStream supports unknown fields (future version of a schema), ProtoBuf does not - we could build a convention based solution atop ProtoStream - assuming UnknownFieldSet and BaseMessage are optional - using (cross platform) conventions - with metadata to go beyond conventions (annotation, programmatic API, XML...) public long size; //uses fixed64 by default @PSType(UINT64) long size; //override protobuf type - Infinispan will/could(?) have a repo of schema that can be queries - we are talking about how the schema is resolved / generated - what we send through the wire is independent of the Proto* A ProtoBuf vs ProtoStream comparison points https://gist.github.com/mmarkus/5999646 Emmanuel