Hi, Netty project has pretty good support for Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf). That is, if you describe a message format with a .proto file, protoc (protobuf compiler) will generate some .java files, and then you can write a protobuf-based binary-encoded high-performance client / server appplication very quickly. The .proto file format is pretty simple and therefore I think a text editor with auto-completion or a visual editor could be implemented and the protoc compiler could be invoked automatically on save to generate .java files. Refactoring like renaming and move (e.g. renaming a message type in .proto removes the old .java file) would be very useful, too. Also, we could generate some skeletal client / server application based on Netty by right-clicking the .proto file and choose 'Generate Netty application' menu item for example. Would this be an interesting feature to you? From a network application developer's standpoint, I think this will be cool and attractive. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4217294#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...