Thanks Mark.. Is that the only one that works right now?
On Jan 10, 6:52 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > ams163 wrote: > > Hello, > > > We are working on an client / server application - and the design > > goals for the communications framework are: > > > 1. Low bandwidth > > 2. Low Latency > > 3. Scalable > > 4. Fast marshall/unmarshall > > > What sort of communications framework do you recommend? > > > We think json would do the trick, and we can use plain NIO socket > > based communications for the least bandwidth - on the server side, we > > can use something like Apache MINA or Netty. > > > Serialisation does not work properly on android <-> other system. > > > SOAP is just too heavy for communications, not to mention slow due to > > the xml processing involved. > > > We've thought of using XStream as well, but we need a custom version > > hacked by a forum member here (it works though). > > > So like I said, JSON is pure string based communications, and can also > > be compressed for transfer. > > > The only issue we have is that something Google gson, which would have > > been brilliant if it could be used on android to marshall/unmarshall > > complex objects, doesn't work on android. Sure, we can use gson to > > marshall/unmarshall on the server side, but we can't even begin to > > think how we'd do that on android using the minimalistic builtin json > > library for complex classes? Is there something available (Aside from > > gson) that works on android, and that automatically marshalls/ > > unmarshalls json? Let's say we have the following class: > > > class Foo { > > public int id; > > public ArrayList<Bar> bars = new ArrayList<Bar> (); > > } > > > class Bar { > > public int x; > > public String name; > > public Set<String> references = new HashSet<String>(0); > > public ArrayList<Object> list = new ArrayList<Object> (); > > } > > > The only other thing I can think of is plain socket/byte based > > communications, and building the data structures painfully on the > > client/server - just like in C. > > Apache Thrift works on Android, at least in terms of their data > marshalling code. > > http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/ > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Published! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
