From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-11-18T22:53:30+09:00
Subject: Re: What would you like to know about JRuby?

Dick Davies wrote:
> I'd like a few examples of embedding Ruby into JEE - Ola Binis book had some
> stuff on writing an EJB in Ruby for example, I've seen OpenESB demos
> with JRuby scripts
> as objects in the workflow, etc.
> 
> The Net is full of  Rails+AR+MySQL+Jruby walkthroughs, but I'm trying
> to write a JRuby MBean
> (so i can run Ruby code when my cluster changes state)
> and Google is looking back at me pretty blankly, I can tell you :)

There's actually some work going on in the GlassFish team to make Ruby a 
first-class citizen of the Java EE world, so you could actually just 
define an MDB in Ruby or a Sesion Bean in Ruby and it would wire all 
that up. As painful and ugly as that sounds...we've seen other APIs 
become actually pretty nice with a little Ruby sprinkled on them, and 
it's an obvious way to start using it in an existing EE company.

For the moment though, we really just need to iron out the embedding 
story. Three or four different APIs, all slightly different, all with 
their own compatibility and migration stories. Not the best state of 
affairs.

- Charlie