If Hessian is Dead, what should one use instead?

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In the comments to this question: Testing Hessian remoting-servlet.xml

Skaffman labeled Hessian a dead duck. So question is: what to use as a replacement.

Criteria for evaluation are:

a drop in replacement would be cool
should allow simple coding against interfaces
no code generation as a separate build step
reasonable efficient considering network bandwidth
not a dead duck

Important update:

http based

What's wrong with vanilla RMI? That matches all of those criteria. — skaffman, May 23 '11 at 06:55

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 07 '12 at 16:21

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I'd probably use either Spring http invoker, hoping that the backing by the large spring ecosystem helps. It also looks like Hessian and http invoker should be easily exchangable.

answered Oct 07 '12 at 16:21

Jens Schauder

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 17 '13 at 13:43

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Why don't you take a look to Apache Commons? I think HttpClient and HttpRequest are great for many scenarios.

On the other hand, I recently talked to the great Douglas Schmidt about Hessian been outdated, he pointed out an important fact: after all, what really matters is if it works. I developed with Hessian and I love it!! I works like a charm. So I think I will keep working with it for a while.

answered Apr 17 '13 at 13:43

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I recently talked to Paul Cowan, a Caucho engineer, about how alive Hessian is. Hessian IS ALIVE, IS BEEN MAINTAINED, but not as a separate release, rather as part of Resin. So you can include resin.jar to work with the latest version of hessian. – Josue Montano Apr 19 '13 at 15:32

If Hessian is Dead, what should one use instead?

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