From: JamesBritt <james@...>
Date: 2002-08-27T05:38:28+09:00
Subject: RE: Ruby Based App Server

> I've worked on web applications built on the J2EE platform as well as
> web applications done in Perl and PHP.  Although I think Ruby is a
> better choice in many respects than Perl and PHP for web applications,
> it doesn't have the database abstraction capabilities that you get
> with EJBs in a Java app server.

What is it that you like about EJBs that you would want to see done with
Ruby?
My experience with EJBs as a data abstraction layer soured me on the whole
thing.  I found them to be bloated, inefficient, and buggy (well, the
iPlanet implementation at least).

> Of course there are less heavy-duty
> ways to abstract access to a database than creating an app server, but
> providing a framework for component based database access might be the
> killer app that would make Ruby the language/platform of choice for
> web applications.

That may be, but I'm unconvinced that EJB/J2EE should be a model for any of
that.

James