EDIT: Brian Slesinsky just documented the protocol (by reverse-engineering the code): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eG0YocsYYbNAtivkLtcaiEE5IOF5u4LUol8-LL0TIKU/edit First, GWT-RPC protocol is asymmetric so that it’s always optimized for the client-side: fast to deserialize something coming from the server, and fast to serialize something to send to it. It’s obviously not binary, as you suspected, but text-based. client-to-server protocol is pipe-delimited … Read more
RPC is C based, and as such it has structured programming semantics, on the other side, RMI is a Java based technology and it’s object oriented. With RPC you can just call remote functions exported into a server, in RMI you can have references to remote objects and invoke their methods, and also pass and … Read more
The fundamental problem with RPC is coupling. RPC clients become tightly coupled to service implementation in several ways and it becomes very hard to change service implementation without breaking clients: Clients are required to know procedure names; Procedure parameters order, types and count matters. It’s not that easy to change procedure signatures(number of arguments, order … Read more
When passing objects across RPC call’s its a good practice to declare concrete parameter types in the RPC interface. If for some reason you cannot use concrete class in the RPC interface try to be as specific as possible. This is because the GWT compiler while emitting javascript has to take into account all possible … Read more
Marshaling and serialization are loosely synonymous in the context of remote procedure call, but semantically different as a matter of intent. In particular, marshaling is about getting parameters from here to there, while serialization is about copying structured data to or from a primitive form such as a byte stream. In this sense, serialization is … Read more
An RPC framework in general is a set of tools that enable the programmer to call a piece of code in a remote process, be it on a different machine or just another process on the same machine. In the particular case of Apache Thrift, we talk about a framework designed to be efficient, and … Read more
XML-RPC is part of the Python standard library: Python 2: xmlrpclib and SimpleXMLRPCServer Python 3: xmlrpc (both client and server)
I had the same issue and believe that it has to do with the size of the repo (edited- or the size of a particular file) you are trying to push. Basically I was able to create new repos and push them to github. But an existing one would not work. The HTTP error code … Read more