The purpose of this Hermod project is to define a high level framework to build very fast messaging applications where it's very easy to switch between serialization or publisher/subscriber implementations.

You can make an analogy with logger and SLF4J (API) / logback (Implementation) for example.

This project aims to be an API and an Implemention for

• serialization,
• publish/subscribe concept.

The project will be firstly done on java but other bindings will follow :

• Java (JVM) binding,
• C# (CLR) binding,
• C++ (native) binding,
• Javascript (js engine) binding.

Our 3 drivers are:

• Performance,
• Interoperability (for both implementation and/or language),
• Low coupling between components.

• hermod-ser (Serialization API and Implementations)

• hermod-feed (Feed Publish/Subcribe API and Implementations)

Hermod is the God of Speed and the Messager of the Gods in the norse mythology.