From: Charles O Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2006-03-17T15:25:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and EJBs

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Well, drb is "distributed ruby", a remoting mechanism provided with standar=
d
Ruby. It would be a good analog to how EJBs are used, and providing a drb
proxy to EJBs using JRuby would be fun and useful. I'm certainly no drb
expert though, nor do I have time right now to work on such a wondrous
beast.

On 3/15/06, lepage@gmail.com <lepage@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> Charles>>
> I like the sound of the challenge. Where can I read up about this DRb
> layer you speak of?
>
> Basically, I need a shove because I'm stuck on the theoretical aspect
> of this. I've never done enterprise integration with Ruby. My current
> job mainly consists of writing technical training materials, so
> anything I am able to develop will definately be written out and I'll
> be sure to make anything I learn public.
>
> rcoder & John>>
> I'm a little unsure which direction to take. I have the EJB running and
> I now have some classes that *should* communicate with the EJB (is this
> what you mean by rewrite the EJB with a SOAP wrapper?). Should I be
> making Ruby try to communicate with these classes now? How does SOAP
> fit into this picture?
>
> Thanks guys!
> tony
>
>
>


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Charles Oliver Nutter @ headius.blogspot.com
JRuby Developer @ jruby.sourceforge.net
Application Architect @ www.ventera.com

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