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MessagePack: fast cross-platform serializer and RPC - please share experience

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Looking for some fast, simple and stable RPC library I stumbled upon MessagePack project which seems to be very good. It is also under active development.

If you used it in any way, could you please share your experience?

P.S. I think this question should be community wiki

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Vladislav Rastrusny Avatar asked Mar 29 '11 07:03

Vladislav Rastrusny

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Well, after some time I found that MessagePack is not well-documented (there was even non-working tutorial in Wiki for Java), there are like 7 outstanding bugs several months old without any replies. Code even is not JavaDoc'ed so that you can take and learn it quickly...

But it seems developer activity there is quite high despite of some outstanding pull requests from the community, that are several months old.

So, well, if GPL suits you, go for ICE. If not... don't know yet. Still looking.

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Vladislav Rastrusny Avatar answered Oct 17 '22 22:10

Vladislav Rastrusny

I'm also looking into a fast, cross-platform, cross-language, non-GPL-licensed RPC library.

From looking at the C++ source of MessagePack it seems that it doesn't work on Win32 though, which is a requirement for myself.

Except for that that single item it is on top of my list of serialization/RPC libraries.

  • http://msgpack.org/ - Win32 missing
  • http://avro.apache.org/
  • http://thrift.apache.org/ - Win32 missing
  • http://bert-rpc.org/
  • http://www.xmlrpc.com/
  • http://json-rpc.org/ - GPL license
  • http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ - RPC missing
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dalle Avatar answered Oct 17 '22 22:10

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