Revision as of 20:07, 19 January 2006

The Hessian binary web service protocol makes web services usable without requiring a large framework, and without learning yet another alphabet soup of protocols. Because it is a binary protocol, it is well-suited to sending binary data without any need to extend the protocol with attachments.

Hessian Downloads

See http://www.caucho.com/hessian for the current downloadable Java versions.

Language Implementations

.NET C#

C# implementation of Hessian is available at http://www.hessiansharp.org under the GPL at Sourceforge by Dimitri Minich, Vit\ aliy Byelyenkiy and André Voltmann.

PHP

A PHP implementation of Hessian is available under the GPL at http://hessianphp.sourceforge.net by Manolo Gómez.

Also see http://www.hessianphp.org/wiki/index.php

Ruby

Christer Sandberg has implemented a Ruby Hessian client at http://rubyforge.org/projects/hessian:

"I just wanted to inform you all that I have made another Ruby Hessian client. It has support for chunks for both strings, xml and binary data and it provides proper encoding and decoding for UTF-8."

Pankaj Mishra has implemented a Ruby Hessian client at http://sourceforge.net/projects/hessianruby under the LGPL.