ActiveMessaging is still alive... 1

Posted by Steve Longdo Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:49:00 GMT

I am happy to see that ActiveMessaging (a13g<-corny) is returning to life. It was announced with a bit of fanfare by Obie in early 2006 and then disappeared.

Jon Tirsen sent out some invites for a new Google Group and introduced Andrew Kuklewicz as the new maintainer of the project. I think this will become the premier way for RoR apps to interact with Java backends in 2007. Take a look at the code and see how you can contribute!

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  1. Andrew Kuklewicz 1 day later:

    Thanks for the support - I was thinking of including more demo code showing exactly that - working code for using ActiveMessaging to connect to java - and the issues that go with this (e.g what Message class does your java code get back - TextMessage or ByteMessage).

    In particular I want to show "real" examples - like using Spring's JmsTemplate instead of some throw away example java class that makes the JMS connection call in the main method with hard coded destination names.

    I also want to focus on real cases, like synchronous messaging with queues, as well as asynch using topics to offload work or keep in synch with java apps.

    So what do you think, is it heresy to include java examples with the ActiveMessaging code, or is that the right way to go to push this as the easiest way to interact?

    Cheers,
    Andrew
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