From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-10-08T06:56:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Status of Ruby<->Java Interfaces

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 06:24:42AM +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Oct 7, 2004, at 3:44 PM, Jeff wrote:
> 
> >So what is the state of the world with the various options that exist
> >in Ruby for this sort of thing?  I've had a brief look at rjni, rjava
> >and rjb. 

rjb is the only one actively developed atm., so it's probably the best
option.

I stopped working on rjni when I discovered that the JVM was interacting
with the signals ruby uses to implement threads (so that Ruby threads
wouldn't work) and realized that the non-reentrancy of ruby 1.x made
this all quite hard...

> Each of which seem to be quite 'alpha'.  Any comments,
> >suggestions on which is best?  Any other options in terms of design?
> >Will these work with network/socket classes in Java?

The main problem would be when you have multiple Java threads; that's
hard to handle in 1.x, at least if you're using JNI directly.

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