There is an open issue awaiting additional info from the submitter: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1735
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:10 PM, <bbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > a friend made me aware of MessagePack today: > > http://msgpack.org/ > > do any of you have any experience with this? one interesting thing > about it is that the IDL compiler was written i Ruby -- which may make > it easy to run on JRuby and create a Maven plugin for compiling IDLs. > > the project appears to be relatively young so I guess it remains to be > seen where it'll end up in the gallery of serialization and RPC > mechanisms. if any of you have any experience with it as a replacement > for Thrift I'd be interesting in hearing your thoughts. > > (the Thrift compiler is a bit of a pain in the butt in a cross platform > environment. in particular when one of those platforms is Windows) > > -Bjørn > >