> A simpler solution might be Facebook's thrift [1] This is a very interesting solution. I'll investigate Thrift further, but it may wind up being what I do. Does anyone know how solid this code is in Haskell?
> the Java binary directly from Haskell using System.Process and friends, and > rather than communicating over ports, communicate over pipes. Cool! This is probably a second step, though - first get the code working, then worry about making it all fast. On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:11 AM, sterl <s.clo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Daniel Cook wrote: >> >> b) Wrap the Java library with some code to use a lightweight message >> queue (zeromq) to send messages to my Haskell program? (This would >> require essentially re-implementing an abstracted subset of the the >> protocol into 0MQ messages) > > A simpler solution might be Facebook's thrift [1] (now an Apache project). > You write a simple file in a C-inspired IDL which gives typedefs and RPC > signatures, and not only do you get the data structures and serialization > functions in a number of target languages including Haskell and Java, but > you get lightweight, relatively robust, server and client implementations. > The implementations of the Java functions can then be written in Scala or > Clojure, so you avoid having to leave fp-land entirely. One could even run > the Java binary directly from Haskell using System.Process and friends, and > rather than communicating over ports, communicate over pipes. In any case, > I've had good luck with this approach. > > Cheers, > Sterl. > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/ > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe