Thrift (protocol)

Thrift (protocol)

Infobox_Software
name = Apache Thrift



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developer = Apache Software Foundation
latest_release_version = Apache Incubator
latest_release_date = release date|2008|05|09
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genre = remote procedure call framework
license = Apache License 2.0
website = http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/

Thrift is a remote procedure call framework developed at Facebook for "scalable cross-language services development". It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, C#, Java, Perl, Python, PHP, Erlang and Ruby. Although developed at Facebook, it is now an open source project in the Apache Software Foundation Incubator. The implementation was described in an [http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/thrift-20070401.pdf April 2007 technical paper] released by Facebook.

Benefits

Some stated benefits of Thrift include:

* Cross-language serialization with allegedly lower overhead than alternatives such as SOAP Fact|date=September 2008
* A lean and clean library. No framework to code to. No XML configuration files.
* The language bindings feel natural. For example Java uses ArrayList. C++ uses std::vector.
* The application-level wire format and the serialization-level wire format are cleanly separated. They can be modified independently.
* The predefined serialization styles include: binary, HTTP-friendly and compact binary.
* Doubles as cross-language file serialization.
* Soft versioning of the protocol. Thrift does not require a centralized and explicit mechanism like major-version/minor-version. Loosely coupled teams can freely evolve RPC calls.
* Extendable through Caml web services.
* No build dependencies on non-standard software. No mix of incompatible software licenses.

ee also

* Google's Protocol Buffers
* Cisco's Etch

External links

* [http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/ Facebook Developers site: Thrift]
* [http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/ Apache Incubator site: Thrift]


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