protoc

protocol - better/smaller/faster than protobuf/thrift without pain!

This is alternative/minimalistic implementation of binary protocol, similar to protobuf and apache thrift without pain:

types

• messages and enums
• primitives: int16, int32, int64, float, double, big decimal, byte, binary
• aliases
• set/list/map with generics
• rpc service definitions

languages

• everything that supported by msgpack, initially java, ruby, javascript, C#, action script

missing features in place

• inheritance - completely missed in thrift, partially present in protobuf via extensions
• natural RPC IDL (request/response/exceptions)
• natural JSON formatter (none of protobuf-java-format/protostuf/thrift handles it properly)
• GWT compatible stubs
• natural support for server pushes (notifications)

samples

example of schema