From: Berlin  Brown <berlin.brown@...>
Date: 2006-03-16T04:53:46+09:00
Subject: Rails and J2EE middleware (threading/servers)

A lot of applications have a middleware layer.  In some ways,
ActiveRecord or Mailer is thought of as a middleware.

But, for example with J2EE, you can run background servers and threads.
 Can this be done with Ruby and how?