Episode 14: IDLs

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News

• Sony’s fight with PSP Hackers
• http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/04/hacked-vita-games-fixed-replaced-on-psn-store-hackers-undeterred.ars
• Pebble Smartphone watch 
• http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android
• Pacman running on javascript 0x10C CPU
• http://fingswotidun.com/dcpu16/pac.html
• UF Computer Science cuts
• http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120416/ARTICLES/120419693

Tool of the Biweek

• Jason:  Sublime text editor http://www.sublimetext.com/
• Patrick: Luminance HDR http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/

Interface Description Langauges (IDLs)

History

• Beginning
• CORBA
• DCOM
• ICE
• Early Web Era
• SOAP (XML-RPC)
• JSON-RPC
• Modern IDLs
• Protocol Buffers
• Apache Thrift

Features

• Messages
• Container classes with convenience functions
• Protocols
• Binary, JSON, Compact
• Transports
• Memory, File, Http request, socket

Strengths

• Automatic code generation
• Interoperability among languages

Weaknesses

• Engineering Overhead
• Bandwidth overhead

Tools

• Thrift4Eclipse: http://thrift4eclipse.sourceforge.net/
• Protoclipse: http://code.google.com/p/protoclipse/

Uses

• RPC
• Serialization
• Storage (some NoSQL databases)