From: "Hans Jörg Hessmann" <hessmann@...>
Date: 2003-10-20T19:27:19+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: rjava

> Have you tried rjava on Windows?  Ie, does it currently only work on Unix
> (in which case, I'll play with it at home), or should I persevere trying to
> work out why Ruby's fork() doesn't work on Windows (maybe it never has, and
> I've just never tried it before)?
>
Well, I don't have Windows installed at home. The fork() is used to start the 
JVM in the background. As workaround you can start the JVM manually:

	java -jar rjava/rjava.jar -verbose

Then you have to replace JVM.start_tcp() by JVM.connect():

	require "java"
	include JAVA
	JVM.connect().import("java.lang.System").out.println("Hello World!")

This should work on Windows, but I haven't tried it.

Hans J�rg