I'm new to Avro. Since I'm having trouble finding simple examples online I'm writing one of my own that I'm putting on github.
https://github.com/wpm/AvroExample Hopefully, this will be of help to people like me who are also having trouble finding simple code examples. I want to get this compiling without of hitch in Maven. I had it running with a 1.4 version of Avro, but when I changed that to 1.5, some of the code no longer works. Specifically, BinaryEncoder can no longer be instantiated directly because it is now an abstract class (AvroExample.java: line 33) and DecoderFactory.defaultFactory is deprecated (AvroExample.java: line 41). How should I modify this code so that it works with the latest and greatest version of Avro? I looked through the Release Notes, but the answers weren't obvious. Thanks.
