i would love an IDL, plus that modern serialization frameworks such as protobuf/thrift support versioning (although i still have issues with different versions of thrift not working nicely together, argh why is that). the only downside is perhaps that they are a little slower than writables.
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Uma Maheswara Rao G 72686 < mahesw...@huawei.com> wrote: > Hadoop has its RPC machanism mainly Writables to overcome some of the > disadvantages on normal serializations. > For more info: > http://www.lexemetech.com/2008/07/rpc-and-serialization-with-hadoop.html > > Regards, > Uma > ----- Original Message ----- > From: jie_zhou <jie_z...@xa.allyes.com> > Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:12 pm > Subject: A question about RPC > To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org > > > Dear: > > > > Nice to meet you! > > > > I am a beginner of hadoop. Recently, I have seen the source of RPC of > > hadoop,but now I have a question. As we know,hadoop RPC make use > > of Dynamic > > proxy mechanism ,but > > > > why not use IDL such as CORBA, or AIDL of Android? > > > > Thanks for your early reply. > > > > Best Regards, > > > > jie > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >