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

[Galder Zamarreno]

On 01/13/2010 03:32 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:
> Are you referring to using protobufs as an alternate to the Marshalling framework for marshalling user data, or for implementing the commands, etc. of the protocol?

The latter, as a way to implement the protocol itself using .proto files 
and generating the corresponding client/server classes.

Clearly, if we're to use those generated classes, they'd be abstracting 
us from the lower level details and quite possible the marshalling itself.

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> On 13 Jan 2010, at 11:30, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
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>> 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,
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>> Galder Zamarreño
>> Sr. Software Engineer
>> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
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Galder Zamarreño
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Infinispan, JBoss Cache