Hessian is a binary
Web service protocol
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that makes Web services usable without requiring a large framework, and without learning a new set of protocols . Because it is a binary protocol, it is well-suited to sending binary data without any need to extend the protocol with attachments.
Hessian was developed by
Caucho Technology
Caucho Technology is based in San Diego, CA. It is an information technology company that produces web server software and application server software as well as the originators of Quercus and Hessian open source projects.
Caucho Technology was fo ...
, Inc. The company has released
Java
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,
Python and
ActionScript for Adobe Flash implementations of Hessian under an open source license (the
Apache license). Third-party implementations in several other languages (
C++,
C#,
JavaScript
JavaScript (), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. As of 2022, 98% of Website, websites use JavaScript on the Client (computing), client side ...
,
Perl
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,
PHP
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,
Ruby
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,
Objective-C
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,
D, and
Erlang) are also available as open-source.
Adaptations
Although Hessian is primarily intended for Web services, it can be adapted for
TCP traffic by using the ''HessianInput'' and ''HessianOutput'' classes in Caucho's Java implementation.
Implementations
Cotton(
Erlang)
HessDroid(
Android)
Hessian (on Rubyforge)(
Ruby
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)
Hessian.js(
JavaScript
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)
Hessian4J(
Java
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)
HessianC#(
C#)
HessianCPP(
C++)
HessianD(
D)
HessianKit(
Objective-C 2.0)
HessianObjC(
Objective-C
Objective-C is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language. Originally developed by Brad Cox and Tom Love in the early 1980s, it was selected by NeXT for its N ...
)
HessianPHP(
PHP
PHP is a General-purpose programming language, general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementati ...
)
HessianPy(
Python)
HessianRuby(
Ruby
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)
Hessian-Translator(
Perl
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)
See also
*
Abstract Syntax Notation One
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*
SDXF
*
Apache Thrift
Thrift is an interface definition language and
binary communication protocol
used for defining and creating services for numerous programming languages. It was developed at Facebook for "scalable cross-language services development" and as of 2 ...
*
Etch (protocol)
Etch was an open-source, cross-platform framework for building network services, first announced in May 2008 by Cisco Systems. Etch encompasses a service description language, a compiler, and a number of language bindings. It is intended to suppl ...
*
Protocol Buffers
Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) is a free and open-source cross-platform data format used to serialize structured data. It is useful in developing programs to communicate with each other over a network or for storing data. The method involves an inte ...
*
Internet Communications Engine
The Internet Communications Engine, or Ice, is an open-source RPC framework developed by ZeroC. It provides SDKs for C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, MATLAB, Objective-C, PHP, Python, Ruby and Swift, and can run on various operating systems, incl ...
References
External links
*{{Official website
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