From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2003-02-13T04:05:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] DataVision 0.7.0 released

"Pe�a, Botp" <botp@delmonte-phil.com> writes:

> Jim Menard [mailto:jimm@io.com] announced:
> > 
> > [DataVision is written in Java. I've just added Ruby as the 
> > scripting language, thanks to the JRuby project.]
> > 
> 
> very cool and very useful.

Thank you.

> I do hope you have plans doing a pure ruby datavision since I'm going in
> that direction (all ruby), sort of the road less travelled.. :-)

I'm afraid not. DataVision started out pure Ruby; you can even download the
Ruby versions from SourceForge. However, I switched to Java because (at the
time) Swing made more sense to me as a cross-platform GUI. Also, JDBC was
more of a known quantity to me compared to Ruby's DBI interface.

Please don't get me wrong: I love Ruby. I present talks about Ruby, and an
article I've written about Ruby is appearing in next month's issue of Mac
Tech. It's just that Java was the right answer for DataVision at the time.

Jim
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