From: Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@...>
Date: 2005-04-13T16:24:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Java Bridge: Are there any?

On 4/13/05, Richard Cole <rcole@itee.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi. Quick question. I've install a database like thingy (kowari) written
> in Java that I want to communicate with from a Ruby: send queries get
> answers. What's a good way to communicate from a ruby process to Java
> process, SOAP? RMI? Corba? A socket? Are there any wrappers that let me
> go from ruby straight to the JVM presumably via the java native call
> interface? It's all on the same machine, I need only to communicate from
> ruby to the Java Client interface that comes with my database thingy
> (kowari). The data to be passed back and forth is all strings. The
> client interface is a Java Bean. Does that open up any possibilities?
> 

Sockets would probably be easiest with strings. However if the jruby
and cruby marshall formats are compatable you could use that across
shared memory.


> regards,
> 
> Richard.
> 
> 


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