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      1 # Third-Party Add-ons for Protocol Buffers
      2 
      3 This page lists code related to Protocol Buffers which is developed and maintained by third parties.  You may find this code useful, but note that **these projects are not affiliated with or endorsed by Google (unless explicitly marked)**; try them at your own risk.  Also note that many projects here are in the early stages of development and not production-ready.
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      5 If you have a project that should be listed here, please [send us a pull request](https://github.com/google/protobuf/pulls) to update this page.
      6 
      7 ## Programming Languages
      8 
      9 These are projects we know about implementing Protocol Buffers for other programming languages:
     10 * Action Script: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-actionscript3/
     11 * Action Script: https://code.google.com/p/protoc-gen-as3/
     12 * Action Script: https://github.com/matrix3d/JProtoc
     13 * C: https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c
     14 * C: http://koti.kapsi.fi/jpa/nanopb/
     15 * C: https://github.com/cloudwu/pbc/
     16 * C: https://github.com/haberman/upb/wiki
     17 * C: https://github.com/squidfunk/protobluff
     18 * C++: https://github.com/google/protobuf (Google-official implementation)
     19 * C/C++: http://spbc.sf.net/
     20 * C#: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-csharp-port
     21 * C#: http://code.google.com/p/protosharp/
     22 * C#: https://silentorbit.com/protobuf/
     23 * C#/.NET/WCF/VB: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-net/
     24 * Clojure: http://github.com/ninjudd/clojure-protobuf
     25 * Common Lisp: http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~ndantam3/docs/s-protobuf/
     26 * Common Lisp: http://github.com/brown/protobuf
     27 * D: https://github.com/msoucy/dproto
     28 * D: http://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/index.php/ProtocolBuffer
     29 * D: https://github.com/opticron/ProtocolBuffer
     30 * Dart: https://github.com/dart-lang/dart-protobuf (runtime) https://github.com/dart-lang/dart-protoc-plugin (code generator)
     31 * Delphi: http://sourceforge.net/projects/protobuf-delphi/
     32 * Delphi: http://fundementals.sourceforge.net/dl.html
     33 * Elixir: https://github.com/jeremyong/exprotoc
     34 * Erlang: http://github.com/ngerakines/erlang_protobuffs/tree/master
     35 * Erlang: http://piqi.org/
     36 * Erlang: https://code.google.com/p/protoc-gen-erl/
     37 * Erlang: https://github.com/basho/erlang_protobuffs
     38 * Go: https://github.com/golang/protobuf (Google-official implementation)
     39 * Go: http://code.google.com/p/goprotobuf/
     40 * Go: https://github.com/akunspy/gopbuf
     41 * Haskell: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hprotoc
     42 * Haxe: https://github.com/Atry/protoc-gen-haxe
     43 * Java: https://github.com/google/protobuf (Google-official implementation)
     44 * Java/Android: https://github.com/square/wire
     45 * Java ME: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-javame/
     46 * Java ME: http://swingme.sourceforge.net/encode.shtml
     47 * Java ME: http://github.com/ponderingpanda/protobuf-j2me
     48 * Java ME: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-j2me/
     49 * Javascript: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-js/
     50 * Javascript: http://github.com/sirikata/protojs
     51 * Javascript: https://github.com/dcodeIO/ProtoBuf.js
     52 * Javascript: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-for-node/
     53 * Javascript: http://code.google.com/p/protostuff/
     54 * Julia: https://github.com/tanmaykm/ProtoBuf.jl
     55 * Lua: http://code.google.com/p/protoc-gen-lua/
     56 * Lua: http://github.com/indygreg/lua-protobuf
     57 * Lua: https://github.com/Neopallium/lua-pb
     58 * Matlab: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-matlab/
     59 * Mercury: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-mercury/
     60 * Objective C: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-objc/
     61 * Objective C: https://github.com/alexeyxo/protobuf-objc
     62 * OCaml: http://piqi.org/
     63 * Perl: http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf-perl
     64 * Perl: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Google::ProtocolBuffers
     65 * Perl/XS: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-perlxs/
     66 * PHP: http://code.google.com/p/pb4php/
     67 * PHP: https://github.com/allegro/php-protobuf/
     68 * PHP: https://github.com/chobie/php-protocolbuffers
     69 * PHP: http://drslump.github.com/Protobuf-PHP
     70 * Prolog: http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/package/protobufs.html
     71 * Python: https://github.com/google/protobuf (Google-official implementation)
     72 * Python: http://eigenein.github.com/protobuf/
     73 * R: http://cran.r-project.org/package=RProtoBuf
     74 * Ruby: http://code.google.com/p/ruby-protobuf/
     75 * Ruby: http://github.com/mozy/ruby-protocol-buffers
     76 * Ruby: https://github.com/bmizerany/beefcake/tree/master/lib/beefcake
     77 * Ruby: https://github.com/localshred/protobuf
     78 * Rust: https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf/
     79 * Scala: http://github.com/jeffplaisance/scala-protobuf
     80 * Scala: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-scala
     81 * Scala: https://github.com/SandroGrzicic/ScalaBuff
     82 * Scala: http://trueaccord.github.io/ScalaPB/
     83 * Swift: https://github.com/alexeyxo/protobuf-swift
     84 * Vala: https://launchpad.net/protobuf-vala
     85 * Visual Basic: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-net/
     86 
     87 ## RPC Implementations
     88 
     89 GRPC (http://www.grpc.io/) is Google's RPC implementation for Protocol Buffers. There are other third-party RPC implementations as well.  Some of these actually work with Protocol Buffers service definitions (defined using the `service` keyword in `.proto` files) while others just use Protocol Buffers message objects.
     90 
     91 * https://github.com/grpc/grpc (C++, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#, Google-official implementation)
     92 * http://zeroc.com/ice.html (Multiple languages)
     93 * http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-net/ (C#/.NET/WCF/VB)
     94 * https://launchpad.net/txprotobuf/ (Python)
     95 * https://github.com/modeswitch/protobuf-rpc (Python)
     96 * http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-socket-rpc/ (Java, Python)
     97 * http://code.google.com/p/proto-streamer/ (Java)
     98 * http://code.google.com/p/server1/ (C++)
     99 * http://deltavsoft.com/RcfUserGuide/Protobufs (C++)
    100 * http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-mina-rpc/ (Python client, Java server)
    101 * http://code.google.com/p/casocklib/ (C++)
    102 * http://code.google.com/p/cxf-protobuf/ (Java)
    103 * http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-remote/ (C++/C#)
    104 * http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-rpc-pro/ (Java)
    105 * https://code.google.com/p/protorpc/ (Go/C++)
    106 * https://code.google.com/p/eneter-protobuf-serializer/ (Java/.NET)
    107 * http://www.deltavsoft.com/RCFProto.html (C++/Java/Python/C#)
    108 * https://github.com/robbinfan/claire-protorpc (C++)
    109 * https://github.com/BaiduPS/sofa-pbrpc (C++)
    110 * https://github.com/ebencheung/arab (C++)
    111 * http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-csharp-rpc/ (C#)
    112 * https://github.com/thesamet/rpcz (C++/Python, based on ZeroMQ)
    113 * https://github.com/w359405949/libmaid (C++, Python)
    114 * https://github.com/madwyn/libpbrpc (C++)
    115 
    116 ## Other Utilities
    117 
    118 There are miscellaneous other things you may find useful as a Protocol Buffers developer.
    119 
    120 * [NetBeans IDE plugin](http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-netbeans-plugin/)
    121 * [Wireshark/Ethereal packet sniffer plugin](http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-wireshark/)
    122 * [Alternate encodings (JSON, XML, HTML) for Java protobufs](http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-java-format/)
    123 * [Another JSON encoder/decoder for Java](https://github.com/sijuv/protobuf-codec)
    124 * [Editor for serialized protobufs](http://code.google.com/p/protobufeditor/)
    125 * [Intellij IDEA plugin](http://github.com/nnmatveev/idea-plugin-protobuf)
    126 * [TextMate syntax highlighting](http://github.com/michaeledgar/protobuf-tmbundle)
    127 * [Oracle PL SQL plugin](http://code.google.com/p/protocol-buffer-plsql/)
    128 * [Eclipse editor for protobuf (from Google)](http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-dt/)
    129 * [C++ Builder compatible protobuf](https://github.com/saadware/protobuf-cppbuilder)
    130 * Maven Protocol Compiler Plugin
    131     * https://github.com/sergei-ivanov/maven-protoc-plugin/
    132     * http://igor-petruk.github.com/protobuf-maven-plugin/
    133     * http://code.google.com/p/maven-protoc-plugin/
    134     * https://github.com/os72/protoc-jar-maven-plugin
    135 * [Documentation generator plugin (Markdown/HTML/DocBook/...)](https://github.com/estan/protoc-gen-doc)
    136 * [DocBook generator for .proto files](http://code.google.com/p/protoc-gen-docbook/)
    137 * [Protobuf for nginx module](https://github.com/dbcode/protobuf-nginx/)
    138 * [RSpec matchers and Cucumber step defs for testing Protocol Buffers](https://github.com/connamara/protobuf_spec)
    139 * [Sbt plugin for Protocol Buffers](https://github.com/Atry/sbt-cppp)
    140 * [Gradle Protobuf Plugin](https://github.com/aantono/gradle-plugin-protobuf)
    141 * [Multi-platform executable JAR and Java API for protoc](https://github.com/os72/protoc-jar)
    142 * [Python scripts to convert between Protocol Buffers and JSON](https://github.com/NextTuesday/py-pb-converters)
    143 * [Visual Studio Language Service support for Protocol Buffers](http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/4bc0f38c-b058-4e05-ae38-155e053c19c5)
    144 * [C++ library for serialization/de-serialization between Protocol Buffers and JSON.](https://github.com/yinqiwen/pbjson)
    145 * [ProtoBuf with Java EE7 Expression Language 3.0; pure Java ProtoBuf Parser and Builder.](https://github.com/protobufel/protobuf-el)
    146 * [Notepad++ Syntax Highlighting for .proto files](https://github.com/chai2010/notepadplus-protobuf)
    147 * [Linter for .proto files](https://github.com/ckaznocha/protoc-gen-lint)
    148