Creating a OSGi based Thrift Service

My previous couple of posts covered basic usage and security aspects of Apache Thrift. You can also use Thrift Servlet based transport to expose a Thrift service via a Servlet. This can be useful if you are in a OSGi environment since you can expose it to the outside world using OSGi HTTPService. But unfortunately [...]

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Securing a Thrift service

A previous post explained how to create a Thrift service and consume it in different modes such as blocking, non blocking etc. Now if you are thinking of using Apache Thrift for client-server data exchange over a public network, the chances are that you may run in to the requirement of securing the data transmitted [...]

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Apache Thrift Quickstart Tutorial

Thrift is a cross language RPC framework initially developed at Facebook, now open sourced as an Apache project. This post will describe how to write a thrift service and client in different modes such as blocking, non blocking and asynchronous. (I felt latter two modes are less documented and needed some tutorial type introduction, hence [...]

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