If Hessian is Dead, what should one use instead?

In the comments to this question: Testing Hessian remoting-servlet.xml

Skaffman labeled Hessian a dead duck. So question is: what to use as a replacement.

Criteria for evaluation are:

• a drop in replacement would be cool
• should allow simple coding against interfaces
• no code generation as a separate build ste开发者_JAVA技巧p
• reasonable efficient considering network bandwidth
• not a dead duck

Important update:

• http based

I'd probably use either Spring http invoker, hoping that the backing by the large spring ecosystem helps. It also looks like Hessian and http invoker should be easily exchangable.

Why don't you take a look to Apache Commons? I think HttpClient and HttpRequest are great for many scenarios.

On the other hand, I recently talked to the great Douglas Schmidt about Hessian been outdated, he pointed out an important fact: after all, what really matters is if it works. I developed with Hessian and I love it!! I works like a charm. So I think I will keep working with it for a while.