From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-10-06T03:32:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Enterprise-Ruby Wish List by Francis Cianfrocca

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On 10/5/06, Brian McCallister <brianm@apache.org> wrote:
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>  How about one written in Java which supports Ruby (and C, Python,
> PHP, Perl, C#, C++, Pike, as well as JMS)?
>
> 1) Install and start ActiveMQ ( http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/ )
>
> 2) 'gem install stomp' or http://svn.codehaus.org/stomp/ruby/trunk/


Thanks, Brian. Actually I know a fair bit about ActiveMQ, and it's the main
reason why I think the Ruby world would do well to come up with a
competitor. You're making a classical case for not re-inventing the wheel,
but ActiveMQ is not the easiest product to use, nor is it particularly
graceful to require all manner of external bindings. It's also the kind of
committee-designed rather than use-case-driven effort you'd expect from
Java. Perhaps the obvious rejoinder is that a little pain never hurt anyone,
but then the success of Rails suggests that there may be a market for a
better way. There are other, more widely-used solutions in the Java world
that are commercial and very expensive. And there is also a very-well funded
project afoot in the Java world (AMQP) which is intended to bring real
standardization to message-broker implementations and reduce costs. That is
another strong clue that there is an unfilled gap. I've been working on a
Ruby implementation of AMQP, which should be ready for early looks quite
shortly now.

I don't know anything about Gozirra. Have you used it?

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