From: junderdown@... (Jason Underdown)
Date: 2002-08-24T15:00:02+09:00
Subject: Distributed Object Container

Is anyone out there in the Ruby community working on an object
container similar to those in J2EE app servers?  I'm aware of dRuby,
but according to my understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong) an
object container does a lot more than just enable remote access to
objects, it also provides such things as caching of recently fetched
objects, database connection pooling, and transactional support.  It
seems to me that this would be a killer app for Ruby that would make
it stand head and shoulders above Python and Perl.  It would also
eliminate any last thoughts in my mind about using Java for web apps.