Etch was an
open-source
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,
cross-platform
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framework for building network services, first announced in May 2008 by
Cisco Systems
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.
Etch encompasses a service description language, a compiler, and a number of language bindings. It is intended to supplement
SOAP
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and
CORBA
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as methods of communicating between networked pieces of software, especially where there is an emphasis on portability, transport independence, small size, and high performance. Etch was designed to be incorporated into existing applications and systems, enabling a transition to a
service-oriented architecture
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. It was derived from work on the Cisco Unified Application Environment, the product acquired by Cisco as part of the
Metreos
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acquisition.
History
The mid-2008 release was planned to supported
Java
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and
C#. A second wave of support was supposed to include
Ruby
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,
Python
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* Python (pro ...
,
JavaScript
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, and
C.
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In July 2008, Etch was released under the Apache 2.0 license.
As part of the open source process, Etch was submitted to the ]Apache Incubator
Apache Incubator is the gateway for open-source projects intended to become fully fledged Apache Software Foundation projects.
The Incubator project was created in October 2002 to provide an entry path to the Apache Software Foundation for projec ...
to be accepted as a new podling.[Proposal to accept Etch into the Apache Incubator]
/ref> On August 25, 2008, the formal vote was proposed[Apache Incubator vote thread]
/ref> and was eventually passed. In September 2008 Etch entered the start-up phase within the Apache Incubator
Apache Incubator is the gateway for open-source projects intended to become fully fledged Apache Software Foundation projects.
The Incubator project was created in October 2002 to provide an entry path to the Apache Software Foundation for projec ...
.
Cisco announced the Unified Application Environment had its "end of life" on February 8, 2012.
In January 2013, Etch has become an Apache top-level project.
Etch was marked as a "retired" project in December 2016.
See also
* Google
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's Protocol Buffers
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* Apache Thrift
Thrift is an interface definition language and
binary communication protocol
used for defining and creating services for numerous programming languages. It was developed at Facebook for "scalable cross-language services development" and as of ...
* ZeroC's Internet Communications Engine
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(ICE)
References
External links
*
Cisco protocols
Application layer protocols
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