newbie SerDe question

[Chris Nicholas <ch...@att.net>]

greetings - 

I'm looking to migrate gobs of ProtocolBuffer logs to Hive, and tweek the Java 
servlet that writes these logs to just store directly to SerDe format....It'll 
be interesting to see how HDFS write operations perform, and if we can juggle 
things partitioned on days so I can just crunch directly on the logs.

While I realize generalized ProtocolBuffer support on a par with Thrift is 
non-trivial, this particular thingy is relatively stable, so doing a one-off is 
entirely reasonable.

Are there any working examples out there apart from:

 http://www.congiu.com/node/7

and

https://lwes.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lwes/contrib/lwes-hive-serde/trunk/src/main/java/org/lwes/hadoop/hive/EventSerDe.java


?

thanks!!
Chris