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Thrift is `Facebook’s <http://facebook.com>`__ BSD/MIT-derived-licensed cross-language RPC framework that’s lighter than SOAP, CORBA and others. From the website:

  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.

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* `Thrift website <http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/>`__
* `Thrift whitepaper <http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/thrift-20070401.pdf>`__
* `Thrift developer’s group at Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2248652825>`__
* Installing [[Thrift with Fink]]