Re: EGL vs. Java

"In the mean time I have started looking at JRuby with the explicit goal
of getting Rails running on System i, and it appears that their
generated bytecode is not compatible with the System i classic JVM."

Hmm, I have been working on this myself. I have it all working in Windows XP at the moment, although I have Rails running in PASE with a MySQL DB. I just got the activerecord-jdbc adapter working smoothly with DB2 for i5OS just last week. Plan to push all of it over to the i shortly. Working on the tutorial to post on my blog as we speak (http://www.petesworkshop.com/petesblog/serendipity/) I have a Ruby on Rails on i web site that is running under webrick and rails in PASE here: http://www.roroni.com/

What bytecode incompatibilities are you experiencing?

Pete




Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:

Joe Pluta skrev den 31-01-2008 20:44:

EGL, however, is not System i-centric. It is mean to be used by everyone to code everything. It's a PIM, platform independent model, which means that as new technologies come along, they can just tweak things here and there to take advantage of the new technology without disrupting your development.

Sounds great, but they still need to prove it to us :)

In the mean time I have started looking at JRuby with the explicit goal of getting Rails running on System i, and it appears that their generated bytecode is not compatible with the System i classic JVM. This is what I will suggest to our boss that we look at for doing rapid web prototyping when it runs well.