Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Interested in using Java Libraries with Ruby??

Java now holds the lead in many areas of software development, but dynamic languages threaten to bypass it in this inexorable climb. Languages such as Python, Perl, Rexx, Groovy, TCL, and Ruby have been doing yeoman service in specialized domains such as file processing, test automation, software builds, glue code, and Web GUIs for years.Here is the technique to glue them together.

JRuby

JRuby, an open source Ruby interpreter for the JVM, simplifies Ruby-Java integration. You can call Java libraries from Ruby, script Java applications with an embedded interpreter, or even use Ruby libraries from Java. 

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