Thrift：Facebook.com 的核心框架

http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/

Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a powerful software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby. Thrift was developed at Facebook, and we are now releasing it as open source.

在它的文档中，自比为 SOAP，CORBA，COM 一类的框架。看了一下它的功能，在 cross-language 方面，的确很酷，提供了很多语言的代码生成器，比如 cpp，java，python，php，ruby，perl 这些大家比较熟悉的，还包括一些看起来很酷的语言，比如 erlang，ocaml。