IDL's are nice, but old school systems like CORBA are death when you need to change things.
Avro, protobufs and thrift are all miles better. On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Koert Kuipers <ko...@tresata.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >
