Protobuf Java

Protocol buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.

Defining Your Protocol Format

  • employee.proto

  • addressbook.proto

Compiling Your Protocol Buffers

protoc -I=$SRC_DIR --java_out=$DST_DIR $SRC_DIR/addressbook.proto

Results

  • Maven -> Plugins -> protobuf -> protobuf:compile

  • Or mvn protobuf:compile

  • ProtobufJavaTest

  • AddressBookTest

  • AddPerson

  • ListPeople

References