From: Matt Mower <matt.mower@...>
Date: 2005-01-15T08:17:06+09:00
Subject: JRuby still under development?

Hi folks,

I'm looking into using the Drools (www.drools.org) rule engine for a
work project.  It's a RETE based rule engine implemented in Java which
has pluggable semantic frameworks allowing rules & consequences to be
expresed in a range of languages including Java, Groovy and Python. 
But not Ruby.

I'm very interested in the possibility of writing rules using domain
specific languages.  Watching how Rails is evolving a simple language
for MVC web applications it seems to me that Ruby would actually be a
great fit with Drools.

However JRuby development appears to have stalled last March and the
lastest release (v0.70) available from
http://jruby.sourceforge.net/index.shtml is described as:

    "Interpreter now thinks it is a ruby 1.8 interpreter (though it
still sometimes behaves like a 1.6 interpreter)"

Does anyone know what the status of the JRuby project is?

Regards,

Matt
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