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

[Mircea Markus]

On Jan 13, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Galder Zamarreno wrote:

> 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.
+1
> 
> 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
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