cross language api for this client server communication model

Question

my question is following up from this question:
Simple Protocol Concept in Java for this setup

The idea is exactly the same i.e client will send request and server respond with some information:

However i want a well known protocol implemtation such that the server/client can be implemented in any programming langguage. So that client Running java can communicate over TCP/IP sockets to remote app written in C e.g.

for this reason, can you recommend any well known opensource implementation?

Answer 1

Just few tips:

• Rest interface: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer
• Corba: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_Architecture
• Apache Thrift: http://thrift.apache.org/
• Google Protocol Buffers: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
• your own implementation over tcp...

Answer 2

it depend on your architecture and your requirement, you can use TCP protocol directly, Http is another choice, if your server deployed on a http server, i recommend using web service. i hope my answer will give you some ideas.