Re: ouch, zookeeper infinite loop

2009-01-07 Thread Mahadev Konar
The version of Jute we use is really an ancient version of recordio ser/deser library in hadoop. We do want to move to some better(versioned/fast/well accepted) ser/deser library. mahadev On 1/7/09 12:08 PM, Kevin Burton bur...@spinn3r.com wrote: Ah... you think it was because it was empty?

Re: ouch, zookeeper infinite loop

2009-01-07 Thread Patrick Hunt
Whatever we do the changes should support having more than one marshaling format/version co-exist. Both for b/w compatibility as well as enabling different serialization mechanisms (jute or pbuffer or thrift or etch, etc...) Patrick Mahadev Konar wrote: The version of Jute we use is really

Re: ouch, zookeeper infinite loop

2009-01-07 Thread Kevin Burton
protocol buffers are nice... the variable int stuff is cool. Though is the protocol very complicated? Why not write a custom hand written Externalizable format? These frameworks are often more trouble than they're worth for small protocols. Kevin On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Patrick