On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]>wrote: > > > AFAIK, protocol buffer codec is a binary data binding framework, > > something similar to XML-Data binding framework's like JAXB, Castor, > > XMLBeans. Google's implementation reminds of CORBA IDL's > > > > There is basic operational similarity of Google Protocol Buffer codec > > with prefixed string decoder. We have a length and then actual > > messages. It will be worthwhile to explore if we can align the google > > codec with prefixed string codec. >
One of the good candidates for such a codec is Thrift initially developed by Facebook and recently contributed to Apache ( http://incubator.apache.org/thrift) Thirift is very similar to Protocol Buffers. Yep. The idea is to get a codec or those who want to use GPB (Google > Protocol Buffer) with MINA. I guess that at some point, we will have a > library of such codecs... > > > -- > Regards, > Cordialement, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com >
