They both offer many of the same features; however, there are some differences: Thrift supports ‘exceptions’ Protocol Buffers have much better documentation/examples Thrift has a builtin Set type Protocol Buffers allow “extensions” – you can extend an external proto to add extra fields, while still allowing external code to operate on the values. There is … Read more
It usually means that you are using an old version of an interface implementation which is missing a new interface method. For example java.sql.Connection interface got a new getSchema method in 1.7. If you have 1.6 JDBC driver and call Connection.getSchema you will get AbstractMethodError.
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