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Home » Blog » Facebook/Apache Thrift for internet services

Facebook/Apache Thrift for internet services

Posted: 08:30 24.11.2008 GMT+1

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Thrift

Facebook Thrift, now a member of the Apache Incubator is a cool way to create cross-language Services.

What does cool mean? Its efficient, fast, and works with native apps, (damn it). It is actually being used by Evernote1, Imeem and Facebook itself.

I find the Evernote Developers' API quite interesting (Check out this PDF in particular). They seem to have a lot of native apps optimized for specific devices that use the same thrift service for synchronization funcitionality.

I wonder how this compares to the usual Java Application stack, normally made out of

  • Spring Web/MVC
  • Service Layer exposed (via Enunciate) as ReST/SoAP or XML-RPC
  • Spring ORM for persistence

Security via Spring Security/SSL-layer? Native clients connect via XML-RPC/SSL ?

I was just wondering how nicely ReST and XML-RPC integrate into Spring. Spring Remoting is for java<->java remoting AFAIK.

Maybe I will have some time to compare both approaches...

[1]PS: Even though I like Evernote (especially when I was able to use it without the need to register.), but I am an avid OneNote 2007 user for my private notes (I have a wacom tablet and use digital ink quite extensively).