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The Java gRPC implementation. HTTP/2 based RPC

14 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 2 stories, 12 comments · first 2015-02-26 · latest 2025-06-28

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  1. It's not enabled by default, but you can --- gRPC Reflection: * https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/blob/master/documentation/... * https://grpc.io/docs/guides/reflection/ You can then use generic tools like grpc_cli or grpcurl to list…
    comment by ahmedtd · 2025-06-28 · in MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
  2. You can run grpc over binder: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/blob/master/binder/src/mai... The overhead is low, and you get best practices like oneway calls and avoiding the transaction limit for free. It also comes with built in…
    comment by charleslmunger · 2024-11-21 · in Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication (2021)
  3. …box the builder includes an annotation (javax.annotation.Generated) that was deprecated in 2019: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/issues/9179 This gives me serious pause.
    comment by stickfigure · 2024-06-28 · in gRPC: The Bad Parts
  4. …- ObjC: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/bazel/objc_grpc_lib... - Java: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/blob/master/java_grpc_libr... - Go (different semantics than all of the other): https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/blob/
    comment by gravypod · 2021-12-09 · in Buf raises $93M to deprecate REST/JSON
  5. …gRPC, they've had an open issue about it for years, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/issues/1886 I like gRPC overall, but it's definitely got some rough spots like this. I'm fortunate enough to be…
    comment by mumblemumble · 2021-05-14 · in Why is load balancing gRPC tricky?
  6. …to set up a Gradle cache server, sounds so fancy! Random piece of Gradle magic, a generated BOM: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/blob/master/bom/build.grad...
    comment by cmckn · 2020-08-05 · in You don’t need reproducible builds
  7. …client artifacts. You can if you enable server reflection[1] and use a tool like grpcurl[2]. [1]: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/blob/master/documentation/... [2]: https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl
    comment by EdwardDiego · 2020-07-15 · in Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad
  8. …At first we had to use a custom fork of grpc-java to build for Android, but with this change https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/pull/4289 we were able to go back to the main repo. gRPC-web was a prohibitively large dependency for our front…
    comment by codesuki · 2018-05-29 · in Show HN: An Example Microservice Back End for Kubernetes, Bazel, Go, Java, GRPC
  9. For the record, gRPC can use JSON. There are examples in the repo on how to do this: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/blob/master/examples/src/m...
    comment by anameaname · 2018-01-26 · in gRPC-Go Engineering Practices
  10. …gRPC, recently switched from BSD+Patents to Apache 2.0. https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/11432 https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/pull/3047 https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/1290
    comment by morecoffee · 2017-07-16 · in Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license
  11. The Java examples are in the examples folder: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/tree/master/examples/src/m... The examples folder references a tutorial at https://github.com/grpc/grpc-common/blob/master/java/javatut...
    comment by ejona86 · 2015-02-26 · in GRPC: A high performance, open source, general RPC framework
  12. …bindings. Regarding the gRPC release, I've looked at the examples in the repo and only found this: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/tree/master/integration-te... . While it's a great showcase for the power of gRPC, having a "hello world"…
    comment by pacala · 2015-02-26 · in GRPC: A high performance, open source, general RPC framework