Google Protocol Buffers are a way of efficiently serializing structured data. They are language and platform neutral and have been designed to be easily extensible. The structure of your data is defined once, and then specific serialization and deserialization code is produced specifically to handle your data format efficiently.

For general details on using Google protocol buffers, see the section Google Protocol Buffers in the Concepts guide.

Google supplies libraries for Protocol Buffer in Java, C++ and Python, and third party libraries provide support for many other languages including .NET, Perl, PHP etc. Universal Messaging's client APIs provide support for the construction of Google Protocol Buffer event through which the serialized messages can be passed.

To create a nProtobuf event, simply build your protocol buffer as normal and pass it into the nProtobuf constructor along with the message type used.

nProtobuf events are received by subscribers in the normal way.

The Enterprise Manager can be used to view, edit and republish protocol buffer events, even if the Enterprise Manager is not running on the same machine as the server. The Enterprise Manager is able to parse the protocol buffer message and display the contents, rather than the binary data.

All descriptors will be automatically synced across the cluster if the channel is cluster-wide.