Friday 19 November 2010

Google Protocol Buffers on OpenVMS V01 released

BC&JA are happy to announce V01 of Google Protocol Buffers on OpenVMS! The release notes contain a wealth of information on the product, its installation and some examples for you to try.
If you are interested in a kit for Integrity Server please send an email to brett.r.cameron(AT)gmail.com and johndapps(AT)gmail.com. As always, we would love to hear how you get on and what you intend doing with the software.

From the release notes:
Thank your for your interest in this port of Google Protocol Buffers to OpenVMS I64. The current release of Google Protocol Buffers for OpenVMS I64 is based on the Google Protocol Buffers 2.3.0 distribution.
Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing tructured data, much like XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. Protocol Buffers are widely used at Google for storing and interchanging many kinds of structured information and they serve as a basis for a custom remote procedure call (RPC) system that is used for practically all inter-machine communication at Google.
Data structures and services are defined in a Proto Definition file, which is then processed to produce source code that can be incorporated into application programs to efficiently read and write structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages, including Java, C/C++, or Python. This OpenVMS port of Google Protocol Buffers includes the core binary distribution and an extension to generate C code as opposed to C++.

1 comment:

  1. ZeroMQ on OpenVMS (http://zeromqonopenvms.blogspot.com/) is an excellent transport when passing GPB between threads, processes or nodes.

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