From: steve.drach@... (Steve Drach)
Date: 2004-06-19T09:23:21+09:00
Subject: JRuby: How does one keep Java objects as Java objects so they can be used in method calls?

I'm trying to use JDOM and JRuby (yes I know about RexML).  In the following
program, I get an error when I pass f to sb.build because f is a RubyFile and
not a Java File object. The error I get is:

no method 'build' with argument types matching [org.jruby.RubyFile] (NameError) 

What is the correct way to deal with this, I believe, common issue?

Thanks,
Steve

------
require 'java'

class Foo
  include_package 'java.io'
  include_package 'org.jdom'
  include_package 'org.jdom.input'

  attr_reader :d

  def initialize
    sb = SAXBuilder.new
    f = File.new "/home/drach/schema/modeler/build.xml"
    @d = sb.build f
  end
end

foo=Foo.new