Hey Ralf, just out of curiosity: what motived you to create your own j2me
port?

The reason I'm asking that is because I did wrote my one (
http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-j2me/)too but it was just due the fact, by
the time published mine, none of the available j2me implementations were
either complete, focused on code size nor 100% compatibility with all
protobuf 2.3.0 features. I'm just wondering what made you discard them too
(including mine).


On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Evan Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Aug 5, 2010, at 9:16 , Ralf wrote:
>
>> I might be mistaken, but didn't "groups" use this approach - use a
>> special tag to indicate the end of a message? As only tags are
>> checked, there is no need to escape any data.
>>
>
> Good point, I forgot about groups. They definitely do use that approach.
> Maybe one of the Googlers on this list will have a better idea about why
> groups are now deprecated in favour of nested messages.
>
>
>
>  Anyway, I was referring more to the implementation. For example, we
>> could first serialize the message to a ByteArrayOutputStream, then
>> write the result and its size to the output. Obviously this approach
>> is much slower, but I was wondering if there were other similar
>> approaches.
>>
>
> That's true, and would work. The other option would be to use fixed width
> integers for the lengths, so then you could "reserve" space in the buffer,
> serialize the message, then go back and fill in the length field. This would
> be an incompatible change to the serialization format, however.
>
>
> Evan
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