[rabbitmq-discuss] Encoding message payload for multiple languages

Thu Dec 31 19:41:26 GMT 2009

Fudge is also quite interesting:

http://kirkwylie.blogspot.com/2009/11/announcing-release-of-fudge-messaging.html

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Garrett Smith <g at rre.tt> wrote:
> I'm curious what others here use for encoding message payload for
> cross-language consumption.
>
> I've used Thrift for quite some time, and it's quite nice I think, but
> there's the annoying overhead of IDL maintenance, compiling and
> distributing application specific client code, etc.
>
> JSON is an obvious choice, but incurs a pretty high overhead for
> encoding/decoding.
>
> XML is similar to JSON in terms of pluses and minuses.
>
> There's Protobuf, which seems like a possibly simpler alternative to
> Thrift, but still requires IDL maintenance, etc.
>
> Binary representation of Erlang terms is darned near perfect (fast and
> flexible), but it's not as easy to consume from other language
> environments.
>
> CSV might be a good approach for some applications.
>
> Obviously there's no "one way" here, but I'm curious what others are doing.
>
> Garrett
>
> P.S. Happy New Year!
>
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