Articles for March, 2014

Using Apache Avro with Java and Maven

Saturday, March 8th, 2014

Apache Avro is a serialization framework similar to Google’s Protocol Buffers or Apache Thrift and offering features like rich data structures, a compact binary format, simple integration with dynamic languages and more.

In the following short five minute tutorial, we’re going to specify a schema to serialize books in a JSON format, we’re using the Avro Maven plugin to generate the stub classes and finally we’re serializing the data into a single file.

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