o">Protocol Buffer Language Guide</a>. Don’t go looking for facilities similar to class inheritance, though – protocol buffers don’t do that.</p>
<h2><a href="#compiling-your-protocol-buffers" name="compiling-your-protocol-buffers"></a>Compiling Your Protocol Buffers</h2>
<p>Now that you have a <code>.proto</code>, the next thing you need to do is generate the classes you’ll need to read and write <code>AddressBook</code> (and hence <code>Person</code> and <code>PhoneNumber</code>) messages. To do t