Basically I am in the process of evaluating thrift for an upcoming project. What I am trying to achieve is to have my data layer written in Java which then serves (via thrift) a ror powered website as well as an iPhone application.
I have familiarised myseld with thrift's IDL and it seems a strong contender due to its efficiencies versus a RESTful service.
I would like to send the POJO via thrift however to do so I am currently having to convert the POJO to the thrift generated object before it can be used by the thrift service however I can't stop feeling there is a better way of doing this which doesn't involve having to do the conversion.
Are there any best practises to overcome this problem?
If you need any more specific information please let me know.
I think the best way is to implement the thrift IDL properly and map your structs against a hbm.xml. This way you can generate your POJO's throught thrift compiler, and can persist'em using hibernate.