LA JOLLA, CA — March 02, 2005 – Caucho Technology, Inc. a Sun Microsystems J2EE licensee, along with AldraTech, announced today that Caucho’s Hessian binary protocol proves its flexibility in the C++ programming environment.
Caucho Technology’s Hessian binary protocol makes web services useable without requiring a large framework, and without learning yet another alphabet soup of protocols. Because it is a binary protocol with a small footprint it is well suited to sending digital data such as .MP3 and image files in today’s mobile environment.
AldraTech is a long-established software house with a wealth of experience in projects ranging from embedded / thin client to enterprise systems. Their client list includes some of the biggest names in the European betting and online gaming industry. Generius, AldraTech’s multiplayer gaming platform, employs Hessian for unprecedented stateless scalability in its market segment.
Radu-Adrian Popescu, Chief Software Architect/Aldratech Ltd, said, “We were looking for an efficient, cross-platform and programming language agnostic RPC protocol. Previous experiences with XML-RPC and SOAP have not been satisfactory, ranging from processing overhead to the programming effort required to express complex objects using these protocols. Hessian immediately looked like a very good candidate: a self-describing protocol with a very compact binary representation. At the time the only languages supported were Java and Python, so I wrote a basic C++ client library, a code generator that pretty much uses the Java interface as an IDL for generating C++ client stubs and also added gzip compression support.”
Steve Montal, Director of Sales and Strategic Partnerships for Caucho Technology, Inc. said, “AldraTech’s decision to create a C++ client library based on the Hessian protocol shows how flexible Hessian can be. Caucho’s support of the open source model means that we welcome innovative projects like the Hessian C++ and pending Flash/ActionScript implementation that AldraTech is working on.” Montal continued, “We fully support AldraTech and others as they explore new ways of integrating Hessian and Resin into their operations.”
Popescu added, “We’ve used Hessian successfully in a commercial project so far, and since then built and used internally a Flash/ActionScript 2.0 implementation that we’re considering open-sourcing as well.”
About Caucho Technology, Inc.
Caucho Technology, Inc., founded in 1998, is focused on developing high performance and affordable Java software. Caucho’s Resin is the application server software of choice for over 3,500 clients including CNet, salesforce.com, the Toronto Stock Exchange and the American Red Cross. Caucho is based in La Jolla, California and is a Sun Microsystems J2EE licensee.
Contact Information:
Duane Trammell
Sales and Marketing Manager
Caucho Technology, Inc.
duane@caucho.com / 619-977-0044
sales@caucho.com / 858-456-0300
www.caucho.com
About AldraTech and Hessian C++
AldraTech is a long-established software house, experienced in three-tier application programming, specializing in the gaming and financial
spreadbetting markets. They have offices in UK and Romania.
Hessian C++ was the first client-only Hessian implementation outside Caucho. It is open source (LGPL) and hosted at:
http://hessiancpp.sourceforge.net
Hessian C++ is also listed on the Caucho web site at:
Contact information:
Alex Dragoi
CEO
AldraTech
+44 7788 445 669
alex.dragoi@aldratech.com
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