Ice is described as 'The Internet Communications Engine (Ice) is a modern distributed computing platform with support for C++, .NET, Java, Python, Objective-C, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript' and is an app. There are 2 alternatives to Ice for Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Self-Hosted. The best Ice alternative is Apache Thrift, which is both free and Open Source.
Thrift is a lightweight, language-independent software stack for point-to-point RPC implementation. Thrift provides clean abstractions and implementations for data transport, data serialization, and application level processing.
Apache Avro™ is a data serialization system. Avro provides: A compact, fast, binary data format. A container file, to store persistent data. Remote procedure call (RPC).
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