From: Kent Dahl <kentda+news@...>
Date: 2003-09-18T00:20:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Java/Ruby communication

Nigel Gilbert wrote:
> I am planning to write a Java program and and a Ruby program and have 
> them intercommunicate, with a bidirectional flow of fairly small amounts 
> of data from one to to the other and back.  I know that I could achieve 
> this by running the ruby program in JRuby, but it would not run fast 
> enough (a crude benchmark implies that JRuby executes Ruby about an 
> order of magnitude slower than I would get using Ruby itself).
> 
> The communication could, I suppose, be done with pipes or TCP or even by 
> reading and writing files.  Does anyone have experience of doing this, 
> and tips or code snippets they could share?

XML-RPC was fairly easy to set up on both the Java and Ruby end when I 
tried it a year ago. Check out xmlrpc4r on RAA.

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