| ON PROTOBUFS |
| This maven module has protobuf definition files ('.protos') used by hbase |
| Coprocessor Endpoints that ship with hbase core including tests. Coprocessor |
| Endpoints are meant to be standalone, independent code not reliant on hbase |
| internals. They define their Service using protobuf. The protobuf version |
| they use can be distinct from that used by HBase internally since HBase started |
| shading its protobuf references. Endpoints have no access to the shaded protobuf |
| hbase uses. They do have access to the content of hbase-protocol -- the |
| .protos found in here -- but avoid using as much of this as you can as it is |
| liable to change. |
| |
| Generation of java files from protobuf .proto files included here is done as |
| part of the build. |
