Have you looked at http://code.google.com/p/protostuff?
It allows you to skip all the code generation and simply use your existing
classes (support for cyclic references too)

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Marco@worldcorp <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello
>  i was wondering if protobuffer supports having an already existing
> class embedded in the message.
> What i mean: from example i have seen, use writes a  .proto buffer and
> protobuffer generates all related java classes.
>
> However, i have already existing classe which i'd like to embed in
> a  .proto file.
>
> Is that supported?
>
> I guess if protobuffer generates interfaces, i can get away with it
> and 'rewrite' my code .. but if it has the functionality to use
> existing classes, that would be appreciated
>
> any constraints on existing classes? i guess they all have to
> implement Serializable
>
> thanks and regarsd
>  marco
>
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