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Ryan King commented on CASSANDRA-2478: -------------------------------------- Finagle is a library for building protocols that *happens* to come with a few built-in implementations (http, memcached, thrift, etc). It solves a lot of problems that you'd have to re-build on top of netty. > Custom protocol/transport > ------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-2478 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2478 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: API, Core > Reporter: Eric Evans > Priority: Minor > > A custom wire protocol would give us the flexibility to optimize for our > specific use-cases, and eliminate a troublesome dependency (I'm referring to > Thrift, but none of the others would be significantly better). Additionally, > RPC is bad fit here, and we'd do better to move in the direction of something > that natively supports streaming. > I don't think this is as daunting as it might seem initially. Utilizing an > existing server framework like Netty, combined with some copy-and-paste of > bits from other FLOSS projects would probably get us 80% of the way there. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira