Hi Guys, First off, I want to thank Google for contributing such a great project. I wanted to let you guys know that there's now a new Java based parser/code generator which might interest some of you guys.
The source for it is at: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/sandbox/activemq-protobuf My use case for the protobuf is to use it as the next generation of the wire encoding used in the Apache ActiveMQ message broker. For those of you know don't know, ActiveMQ is an open source JMS provider. In this narrow use case, the use of the builder pattern makes it a bit more cumbersome to work with the messages. This version of the code generator, uses the standard Java Bean getter/setter pattern. We also don't need to track unknown fields, message extensions, or use the reflection bits. So it leaves all those parts un-implemented. So I'm not sure it can be considered a general purpose implementation of protocol buffers. It's a lean and mean, 'you better know what your doing' implementation. It implements a Java based compiler with an associated maven plugin so you can easily use it in your maven builds. Ant task would be trivial to implement, but have not done so just because the build systems I work with are maven based. It has a dependency on protobuf-java-2.0.1rc1.jar since it's using it's CodedInput/OutputStreams but unfortunately there were a few handy classes that had to be copied from protobuf-java implementation because of visibility issues. Hopefully, we can work together and get some of those APIs exposed a bit so that our module can remove the copies. Regards, Hiram
