That is pretty much what I was thinking. We may implement the xrl in Java for this project, and if so we'll send patches.
Cheers, Dan On Aug 29, 2011 4:58 PM, "Ben Greear" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/28/2011 06:16 PM, Dan Mihai Dumitriu wrote: >> Hi Ben, >> >> Thanks for the quick reply. I was just curious. >> >> I don't necessarily think that Thrift is better than what is there >> now. However, I want to write an interface to the RIB in Java, so the >> cross language issue came up. Do you have any suggestion, other than >> building it from scratch? :) > > Seems like we could make the code that generates the c++ code from templates > generate java classes as well. And would have to re-implement the xrl core > logic in java. > > That probably wouldn't be too difficult, but I don't have time or interest to > do it myself. I'd be happy to consider patches if someone else wants to work > on it, however... > > Or, depending on your needs, you might be able to hard-code some java-xrl stuff without > using template-generated java code, or even have the java code call c++ programs > that do the messaging. > > Thanks, > Ben > >> >> Cheers, >> Dan >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Ben Greear<[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 08/26/2011 03:54 PM, Dan Mihai Dumitriu wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> A couple of years ago some work was started to lay the groundwork for >>>> supporting Thrift as the RPC mechanism. I was just wondering what the >>>> status of that is. It seems kind of dead from the mailing list. >>>> >>>> ( http://mailman.icsi.berkeley.edu/pipermail/xorp-hackers/2009-November/002242.html ) >>> >>> I don't think anyone is working on it, and unless someone can explain why >>> it would be better than what we have now, I'm not overly excited about >>> accepting patches that add dependencies on external frameworks. >>> >>> Do you have some project in mind that would benefit from using Thrift? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ben >>> >>> -- >>> Ben Greear<[email protected]> >>> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com >>> > > > -- > Ben Greear <[email protected]> > Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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