Vote for the best protocol for the given scenario

Question

I have a design decision to make. I need your advice.

Requirements:

• A server and a client. client is typically a mobile phone.
• Connected through t

Answer 1

Hessian is a lightwieght binary protocol over http. There are a lot of different Hessian implementations so you could serve a number of different clients.

Since you're concerned with efficiency, you can find some metrics on different Java remoting protocols here: http://daniel.gredler.net/2008/01/07/java-remoting-protocol-benchmarks/