Hello, My first quick draft of a .proto file [1] for logging events with a quick-and-dirty attempt to create a Logback => ProtoBuf Convertor [2] I am sure it's not perfect. So all comments are welcome. It's probably too logback specific, my goal is that the protocol could also be used for transmitting log4j events. I haven't done any benchmarking yet (and I haven't compiled the proto file optimized for speed) [1] http://code.google.com/p/firewood/source/browse/trunk/compare-formats/src/ma... [2] http://code.google.com/p/firewood/source/browse/trunk/compare-formats/src/ma... [3] http://code.google.com/p/firewood/source/browse/trunk/compare-formats/src/te... regards, Maarten