Erlang Universal Binary Format? Anyone using it?

Question

I recently stumbled upon this 2002 conference paper (Getting Erlang to talk to the outside world by Joe Armstrong) and I was wondering whether this is a standard that w

Answer 1

You might find the following information helpful about UBF (i.e. UBF User's Guide).

http://ubf.github.com/ubf/ubf-user-guide.en.html

This might help answer some of your questions about UBF. There is also an Erlang server and client implementation of Thrift using the UBF framework (https://github.com/ubf/ubf-thrift).

Joe N.

p.s. We have been using UBF, EBF, and JSF in a production environment for approximately ~5 years. The UBF contract checker is very helpful for developing, debugging, and deploying a system.