You can use Thrift to communicate between many nodes in a distributed system. It's still RPC - each node would have to host a server, and other nodes would have to make a connection to that server to pass information around.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Joshua Partogi <[email protected]>wrote: > When talking about distributed system, Java has JMX and RMI. Is it > possible to build a distributed system, in a way multiple nodes can > talk to other nodes, with thrift? Or is thrift limited to RPC only. > > Sorry for the vague question. I am still evaluating thrift for > implementing the dynamo paper. > > -- > http://twitter.com/jpartogi >
