From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Thrift RPC
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:49:42 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.64.0908121747050.20861@malasada.lava.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E2DB8264-FAE5-4918-A751-8F94EED0B8A9@sun.com>
> Am I totally missing something or hasn't been the binary RPC
> of that style been dead ever since SUNRPC? Hasn't the eulogy
> been delivered by CORBA? Haven't folks realized that S-exprs
> are really quite good for data serialization in the heterogeneous
> environments (especially when they are called JSON) and you
> really shouldn't be made to figure out how large is the integer
> on a host foo?
Just because the world is full of XML zealots does not mean that XDR (ONC
RPC), NDR (DCE RPC) and others are dead. Neither of these makes you
figure out how large the integer on host foo is (thats half the point).
I personally like the XDR standard (I can do without NDR and BER/DER).
> Roman.
Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-13 3:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-13 3:33 Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-13 3:49 ` Tim Newsham [this message]
2009-08-13 4:33 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-13 3:56 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-13 6:49 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-08-13 10:01 ` Uriel
2009-08-14 4:58 ` Nate S
2009-08-13 8:33 ` Richard Miller
2009-08-13 8:42 ` roger peppe
2009-08-13 13:43 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-13 14:27 ` David Leimbach
2009-08-13 15:06 ` roger peppe
2009-08-14 3:41 ` Uriel
2009-08-14 13:19 ` matt
2009-08-17 15:27 ` David Leimbach
2009-08-17 15:44 ` ron minnich
2009-08-17 15:58 ` David Leimbach
2009-08-14 19:08 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
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