| [pde-dev] Using JRuby to write Eclipse plugins |
Hi all! I hope you are all well :) Our project is developing a "Dispatcher" application for an airport fuelling system. It is used to direct the fuel trucks to aircrafts who have ordered fuel. We have chosen Java as the runtime platform on all tiers since we are familiar with it. The four tiers are an in-vehicle application, a headless server application, a web application and the "Dispatch" application. The in-vehicle, server, and web applications are all written in Ruby using JRuby. The in-vehicle application uses Eclipse SWT+JFace for GUI (no RCP), and it is working VERY well. We recommend it :) We have started writing parts of the Dispatcher application as an Eclipse RCP plug-in, and we have been writing in Java. However it is clear that we are duplicating lots of Ruby code, so we will switch to writing the plug-in in Ruby, using JRuby. This is going well except for one bug: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-3100 Is concerns the OSGI class loading model and we would LOVE to get some help with this. The JRuby team is on it, but they would REALLY benefit from help from you guys since you know the OSGI class loading model well. Please, could you look at the example in the JIRA issue and maybe contact Charles Oliver Nutter? He will tell you what help he requires. This is a chance to spread the Eclipse RCP platform outside the Java language :) Writing Eclipse plug-ins in Ruby is a joy and makes it accessible to even more developers. I await your responses with great anticipation :) -- With kind regards, Uwe Kubosch Datek Wireless Norway -- With kind regards, Uwe Kubosch Kubosch Consulting Norway
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