Yea, but the PB library doesn't actually handle sending requests over the network, etc... It literally just encodes data. If you like protocol buffers, check ou

Yea, but the PB library doesn't actually handle sending requests over the network, etc... It literally just encodes data. If you like protocol buffers, check out Thrift. Thrift was designed based off of protocol buffers, but handles everything from end to end. http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/ http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/