From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-06T03:39:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Enterprise-Ruby Wish List by Francis Cianfrocca

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:

> 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.

please release early!  i've been looking for such a beast to base a
peer-to-peer clustering idea on...

-a
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