From: Anders Bengtsson <ndrsbngtssn@...>
Date: 2002-08-14T04:36:32+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby beta 1.6/0.5.1

Hal E. Fulton wrote:

> Pardon my ignorance about this project...
> 
> Which, if any, of the following are possible
> with JRuby?
> 
> 1. Compile a Ruby program to Java bytecodes

Not yet, but we hope to do this sooner or later.

> 2. Add a Swing-based GUI to a Ruby program

Yes, there is even a small example of this included.

> 3. Write an applet in Ruby which will then
>    run on a browser with a JVM

I think it would require bytecode compilation to create an applet
directly. But it should be possible to write some kind of launcher
applet that loads and runs a script.

Please do tell us if you write one! :)

/Anders
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