[Tech] Fcp woes ..final

[freenetwork at web.de]

Matthew Toseland wrote:
> We are not going to make radical changes to FCP at this point. Backward 
> compatibility may suck, but it's necessary when we have a number of working 
> and widely used clients. Minor changes are however of interest - if they are 
> justified.
>   
My wishlist for FCP3:

* node generated message IDs to ensure true uniqeness and unguessability 
of node-IDs to protect different FCP client from another
* usage of JSON [1] for the messages. This is standardized and easily 
parseable. Another *great* feat is it's easy to convert a JSON-message 
into a Java bean and vice versa [2], skipping the whole manual parsing 
of fields altogether and concentrating on the work to do.

If requested, I can provide elaborate snippets how to use the beanifying.


[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON
http://json.org/ (notice all the JSON-libraries freely available)

[2]
http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/index.html (there are more)