[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Town Hall Meeting: Friday April 24 - One proposal

[Uros Nedic]

 I have one proposal regarding communications between two webapps.

 I carefully read http://opensolaris.org/os/community/web/restructuring/
and downloaded document opensolaris_authentication.txt from that page.

 You mentioned there, that you plan to use XMLRPC protocol for webapps
inter-communication. My proposal is to use Protocol Buffers technology
from Google. According to some tests I saw recently Protocol Buffers
won in each test. It is open source technology and can easily be obtained
from http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/. Since I writing to developer
community, everyone knows that XML parsing in very complex, and also
there are many other disadvantages of XML.

For the end of this email, just a few citations:

	Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral,
	extensible mechanism for serializing structured data - think XML,
	but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data
	to be structured once, then you can use special generated source
	code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a
	variety of data streams and using a variety of languages - Java,
	C++, or Python.
						      --From Protocol
Buffers portal

	Why not just use XML?
	Protocol buffers have many advantages over XML for serializing
	structured data. Protocol buffers:
	* are simpler
	* are 3 to 10 times smaller
	* are 20 to 100 times faster
	* are less ambiguous
	* generate data access classes that are easier to use
programmatically
							--From Protocol
Buffers portal
Regards,
Uros Nedic
Executive Leader of RS-OSUG
Belgrade, Serbia

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:advocacy-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Grisanzio
Sent: April 23, 2009 6:41 AM
To: OpenSolaris Advocacy; i18n-discuss at opensolaris.org
Subject: [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Town Hall Meeting: Friday April 24

hey, guys.

Reminder: There will be an OpenSolaris Community Town Hall Meeting on 
Friday April 24 at 8 a.m. US/Pacific time. An update on the OpenSolaris 
2009.06 binary distribution will be the main topic, but there will also 
be briefings on open development, governance, and the website 
transition. Everyone is welcome to call in or participate online via 
IRC. Check the link below for the full schedule.

http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Townhall_Apr_24_2009

I wanted to draw your attention specifically to the website transition 
part of the call because that will directly affect all users on 
opensolairs.org over the next few months as we build out the new site in 
stages. Bonnie Corwin, Sr. Engineering Manager for the OpenSolaris 
Developer Collaboration Team, will give an overview of our website 
transition implementation plan. We'll be updating the opensolaris.org 
roadmap and website documents over next couple of days as a result of 
these plans, and we will have more calls and mail communications going 
forward. See the links below for the existing website transition documents.

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/web/
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/web/restructuring/
(multiple documents under the restructuring link)
http://opensolaris.org/os/about/roadmap/

The best way to keep up to date on website issues is to read 
website-discuss:

http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/website-discuss
http://opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=29

Jim

-- 
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/

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