For a more peer-based distributed system, you may want to establish servers on both sides.
But nothing prevents you from building a distributed system using Thrift. Can you explain your question a bit more? What characteristics did you think might make Thrift unsuitable? What is lacking from RPC as a primitive? On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Bryan Duxbury <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
