I just spotted this. Google prototype buffers. It looks like an extensible IDL like way to describe objects that need to be serialized between machines and between languages. It's all Apache 2.0 licensed so if you're looking for efficient object serialization then this looks like a good space efficient and CPU efficient alternative to XML, Java serialization or similar mechanisms.
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Google protocol buffers, pretty cool
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Billy is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. He's been at IBM since 2001. Billy was the lead on the WorkManager/ Scheduler APIs which were later standardized by IBM and BEA and are now the subject of JSR 236 and JSR 237. Billy lead the design of the WebSphere 6.0 non blocking IO framework (channel framework) and the WebSphere 6.0 high availability/clustering (HAManager). Billy currently works on WebSphere XD and ObjectGrid. He's also the lead persistence architect and runtime availability/scaling architect for the base application server.
Before IBM, Billy worked as an independant consultant at investment banks, telcos, publishing companies and travel reservation companies. He wrote video games in C and assembler on the ZX Spectrum, Atari ST and Commodore Amiga as a teenager. He started programming on an Apple IIe when he was eleven, his first programming language was 6502 assembler.
Billys current interests are lightweight non invasive middleware, complex event processing systems and grid based OLTP frameworks.