main() and use some canned multithreading libraries to build a robust server. Checkout the whitepaper for further details. Those crafty authors took the time to write a whitepaper in tex, just to give it the feel of quality research.So, you're all ready to install Thrift on a Mac. It's a nuisance, but at least it's reasonably well documented.
But what's a killer is that the Java tutorial code is utterly busted--like it won't even compile for God's sake. To get it to work, you have to:
1. Download some logging junk from slf4j.org. Then add slf4j-simple.jar and slf4j-api.jar to the classpath of the build.xml.
2. Add the same two jars to the JavaServer and JavaClient shell script classpaths.
3. Edit the generated source files. Are you kidding? Edit the freakin' generated source? And this ain't no Java6 problem--this shit won't even compile:
thrift-HEAD/thrift/tutorial/java/src/JavaServer.java:66: duplicate case label
case Operation.DIVIDE:
thrift/tutorial/java/src/JavaServer.java:77: incompatible types
found : tutorial.Operation
required: int
io.what = work.op;
The fixes are straightforward: Remove the qualifying class from the switch statements, and assign some number (I used work.num2) to io.what.
Then things seem to work.
That's one sloppy tutorial. By making such high barriers to even running the tutorial, the Thrift team has really slashed their user base. It's too bad, because I suspect Thrift is really pretty awesome.
