Apache Thrift Serialization Framework

[Peter Firmstone <ji...@zeus.net.au>]

Anyone played with Apache Thrift?  It's an Incubator project at the 
moment, it's reported to be a fast and light cross platform, cross 
language serialization framework (common language object types), it's 
lighter than CORBA.  It could be used by a smart proxy, to talk to a 
service written in another programming language.  It might also be 
utilised some day to make a Jini service available to another 
programming language, where the Jini service uses a defined subset of 
built in java language objects. Lookup & Discovery would need a 
different mechanism than exists today however.

Just thought you might be interested to know, if you didn't already.

Cheers,

Peter.

Re: Apache Thrift Serialization Framework

[Patrick Wright <pd...@gmail.com>]

There has been a lot of activity around serialization techniques for
Java in the past couple of years, Thrift being one. One (of several)
comparison websites
http://code.google.com/p/thrift-protobuf-compare/wiki/Benchmarking

Some of these are serialization-only, others include a mechanism for
RPC as well. Most aim to work across-languages as well.

I've been thinking of plugging one or another of these into our Jini
invocation stack but as serialization is not a bottleneck in our
system, and we don't need cross-language invocation, I haven't gotten
around to it. Am interested in hearing if anyone works on this,
though.


Patrick

Re: Apache Thrift Serialization Framework

[Jonathan Costers <jo...@googlemail.com>]

Sounds like an interesting technology to me

2010/1/20 Peter Firmstone <ji...@zeus.net.au>

> Anyone played with Apache Thrift?  It's an Incubator project at the moment,
> it's reported to be a fast and light cross platform, cross language
> serialization framework (common language object types), it's lighter than
> CORBA.  It could be used by a smart proxy, to talk to a service written in
> another programming language.  It might also be utilised some day to make a
> Jini service available to another programming language, where the Jini
> service uses a defined subset of built in java language objects. Lookup &
> Discovery would need a different mechanism than exists today however.
>
> Just thought you might be interested to know, if you didn't already.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter.
>