Github user aljoscha commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/202#issuecomment-94402978 I was referring to the way that communication is handled between the java host and the generic language client: Communication between them is not based on a fixed set of Messages (for example, messages defined using something like Protobuf or Avro) but instead the knowledge about how messages are structured is implicit in the code that does the messaging. So the java side expects a sequence of primitives (integers, strings) in a certain order and the python side knows that order and sends them in this order.
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