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 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
