On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:37 PM, FiveTwelve <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I have an application that already has a ton of Soap web services that
> basically serve up JPA entities. I use this to communicate data to a
> Silverlight application.
>
> Soap is horribly slow, one of our messages is 10MB!!! The equivalent
> protobuf message is 300K! I'm looking for an easy way to start using
> PBs instead of Soap. From what I've gathered so far, it would
> basically require a re-write to convert to conventional PB messages
> and services as there is, to my knowledge, no automatic conversion
> between Java beans and java PB messages.
>
> I've looked in to the protobuf-net project. This project supports
> arbitrary object serialization, and does so extremely quickly. I can't
> find anything similar for Java.
>
> Does anyone else have this problem? I'm considering writing an
> extension to the Java protobuf package to allow for protobuf-net-like
> on the fly serialization of Java beans. Would anyone else find this
> useful?


+1
Some people would prefer using pojos with getters/setters (apache thrift
comes to mind) rather than the
builder pattern that protobuf is enforcing w/ its users.

>
>
> Thanks
> >
>

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