On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Vic Devin <vfn...@gmail.com> wrote: > This thread seems to be a bit old but anyway this topic became suddenly > important for me since I start to hear the "Protobuf" new magic word. > > Now I was a bit surprised to discover that it is actually the same idea as > CORBA! >
No it's not - protobuf can be used to build a RPC mechanism, but there are many other things that you can use protobuf for that you can't use CORBA for. For example, I've used it to write persistent EDRs to a file in a structured format, and to stream network messages where there's no simple request/response pairing. The analogy with ASN.1 is a better one (and see my previous comments on that) Oliver -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
