Hi Infinispan developers,

I'm working on a solution for developers who need to access Infinispan services  through different programming languages.

The focus is not on developing a full featured client, but rather discover the value and the limits of this approach.

- is it possible to automatically generate useful clients in different languages?

- can that clients interoperate on the same cache with the same data types?

 You can found the project here [1]: is a gRPC-based client/server architecture for Infinispan based on and EmbeddedCache, with very few features exposed atm.

Currently the project is nothing more than a poc with the following interesting features:

- client can be generated in all the grpc supported language: java, go, c++ examples are provided;

- the interface is full typed. No need for marshaller and clients build in different language can cooperate on the same cache;

The second item is my preferred one beacuse it frees the developer from data marshalling.

What do you think about?

Sounds interesting?

Can you see any flaw?

There's also a list of issues for the future [2], basically I would like to investigate these questions:
How far this architecture can go?
Topology, events, queries... how many of the Infinispan features can be fit in a grpc architecture?

Thank you

Vittorio