added CC to the dev@thrift.apache.org list On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Nate McCall <n...@riptano.com> wrote:
> There was some work done at the thrift level for ssl support recently > (@jeromatron, do you have the info on this?) which would be helpful. > speaking of networking and ssl. lately I have been implementing a logging system that uses protobuffers as message envelopes and a framed transport to stream messages to the log server (*). I first had a look at Apache Mina, and then had a look at Netty. Netty seemed to be the better alternative since it has a somewhat cleaner design and seems to be more actively worked on. not only did the code end up being relatively minimal, but it turns out to be *trivial* to add things like SSL support, compression, other transports etc. I am usually very critical to adding dependencies willy-nilly, but given that, I think that in this case, thrift could actually benefit greatly from making use of Netty rather than maintaining its own IO code. you do get a *lot* for free by using Netty. (*) yes, I am aware of several log servers that are out there, but the ones I have looked at are either too complex, too buggy or lack some design aspects that I want in a log server. it is likely that I will open source the log server at some point. (I wrote a log server ~5 years ago that is still in use at ... some fairly huge web properties. unfortunately I was never able to open source it. besides: times have changed and there are some things I'll be doing differently this time around. -Bjørn
