From: Geoff Lane <geoff@...>
Date: 2006-02-15T07:09:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby- interactions with Appservers such as Oracle/Jboss

Well, you can definitely expose the EJBs as Web Services and access them 
using Ruby that way. Is that what you are talking about?

If so . . .

SOAP4R provides everything you need to work with SOAP Services. The 
current release works best with RPC-literal services, but the latest 
from the source trunk greatly improves Document-literal support.

wsdl2ruby can generate classes for you so that you don't have to guess 
about the code generated.

Some example code:

require 'service'

service = 
SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new('http://example.com/services/Contacts').create_rpc_driver
service.generate_explicit_type = true
service.wiredump_dev = STDOUT if $DEBUG

result = service.SearchContacts(SearchContactsRequest.new('some_name'))
if result.contacts.length > 0
     result.contacts.each { |c| print_contact(c) }
else
     puts "No contacts found..."
end

Arjun Khanna wrote:
> Hi:
> I am evaluating using Ruby to build an enterprise application. I expect 
> that the application setup will include a browser [ie], a (1)webserver 
> such as apache and an (2)application server such as that provided by 
> Oracle/Jboss (3)the data base.
> 
> Before starting on such a project, I wanted to find out  if there any 
> known issues related to ruby interacting with application EJB's [j2ee 
> compliant]. Is there a specific weblog/documentation set where I can 
> readup about known issues?
> 
> Are there any example applications available for download where one can 
> see a prototype application built using Ruby + Jboss [or equivalent 
> freeware]?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Arjun Khanna.
> 
> 


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Geoff Lane <geoff@zorched.net>