# Ruby- interactions with Appservers such as Oracle/Jboss **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 14, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-interactions-with-appservers-such-as-oracle-jboss/53795 "2006-02-14T17:31:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce73a5/32.png) [@Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Arjun_Khanna)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-interactions-with-appservers-such-as-oracle-jboss/53795/1 "2006-02-14T17:31:17Z")
Hi: I am evaluating using Ruby to build an enterprise application. I expect that the application setup will include a browser [ie], a (1)webserver such as apache and an (2)application server such as that provided by Oracle/Jboss (3)the data base. Before starting on such a project, I wanted to find out if there any known issues related to ruby interacting with application EJB’s [j2ee compliant]. Is there a specific weblog/documentation set where I can readup about known issues? Are there any example applications available for download where one can see a prototype application built using Ruby + Jboss [or equivalent freeware]? Thanks in advance. Arjun Khanna. ---
**Author:** ![Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce73a5/32.png) [@Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Arjun_Khanna)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-interactions-with-appservers-such-as-oracle-jboss/53795/2 "2006-02-14T18:08:17Z")
Arjun Khanna wrote: … > Before starting on such a project, I wanted to find out if there any > known issues related to ruby interacting with application EJB’s [j2ee > compliant]. Is there a specific weblog/documentation set where I can > readup about known issues? You should have a medical team on hand, as J2EE developers, after exposure to Ruby, have a high risk of head explosion when they return to coding EJBs. Just a heads up. – James B. [http://www.ruby-doc.org](http://www.ruby-doc.org) - Ruby Help & Documentation [Ruby Code & Style](http://www.artima.com/rubycs/) - The Journal By & For Rubyists [http://www.rubystuff.com](http://www.rubystuff.com) - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff [http://www.jamesbritt.com](http://www.jamesbritt.com) - Playing with Better Toys [http://www.30secondrule.com](http://www.30secondrule.com) - Building Better Tools ---
**Author:** ![Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce73a5/32.png) [@Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Arjun_Khanna)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-interactions-with-appservers-such-as-oracle-jboss/53795/3 "2006-02-14T20:52:43Z")
DÅ?a Utorok 14 Február 2006 18:06 James B. napísal: > You should have a medical team on hand, as J2EE developers, after > exposure to Ruby, have a high risk of head explosion when they return to > coding EJBs. > > Just a heads up. Sooo, head explosions are now treatable by paramedics? Oh joy, now I can fulfill item no. 7 on my Things To Do Before I Die: Establish a world record in the amount of lit firecrackers I can fit into my mouth 😛 David V. ---
**Author:** ![Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce73a5/32.png) [@Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Arjun_Khanna)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-interactions-with-appservers-such-as-oracle-jboss/53795/4 "2006-02-14T18:17:48Z")
Thanks much. I am really glad to hear that Ruby development is a lot easier than EJBs. However, there is some logic already embedded in the EJB’s and there is a fair chance of saving execution time by re-using that logic. So my question still stands- Are there any known projects/weblogs/documentation-sets where I can readup on success or problems related to integrating, making calls outs to EJB’s from Ruby. Thanks in advance for your help. I appreciate it. Arjun. James B. wrote: > Arjun Khanna wrote: > … > > > Before starting on such a project, I wanted to find out if there any > > known issues related to ruby interacting with application EJB’s [j2ee > > compliant]. Is there a specific weblog/documentation set where I can > > readup about known issues? > > You should have a medical team on hand, as J2EE developers, after > exposure to Ruby, have a high risk of head explosion when they return to > coding EJBs. > > Just a heads up. > > – > James B. > > [http://www.ruby-doc.org](http://www.ruby-doc.org) - Ruby Help & Documentation > [Ruby Code & Style](http://www.artima.com/rubycs/) - The Journal By & For Rubyists > [http://www.rubystuff.com](http://www.rubystuff.com) - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff > [http://www.jamesbritt.com](http://www.jamesbritt.com) - Playing with Better Toys > [http://www.30secondrule.com](http://www.30secondrule.com) - Building Better Tools ---
**Author:** ![Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce73a5/32.png) [@Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Arjun_Khanna)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-interactions-with-appservers-such-as-oracle-jboss/53795/5 "2006-02-14T23:09:09Z")
Well, you can definitely expose the EJBs as Web Services and access them using Ruby that way. Is that what you are talking about? If so . . . SOAP4R provides everything you need to work with SOAP Services. The current release works best with RPC-literal services, but the latest from the source trunk greatly improves Document-literal support. wsdl2ruby can generate classes for you so that you don’t have to guess about the code generated. Some example code: require ‘service’ service = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(‘[http://example.com/services/Contacts](http://example.com/services/Contacts)’).create\_rpc\_driver service.generate\_explicit\_type = true service.wiredump\_dev = STDOUT if $DEBUG result = service.SearchContacts(SearchContactsRequest.new(‘some\_name’)) if result.contacts.length \> 0 result.contacts.each { |c| print\_contact(c) } else puts “No contacts found…” end ---
**Author:** ![Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce73a5/32.png) [@Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Arjun_Khanna)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-interactions-with-appservers-such-as-oracle-jboss/53795/6 "2006-02-15T03:07:37Z")
The forthcoming Pragmatic book “Enterprise Integration with Ruby” may be helpful. The preview PDF doesn’t discuss interfacing to EJB’s, per se, but it does go over options for communicating with non-ruby systems. Also, take a look at JSON (Javascript Object Notation: [http://www.json.org/](http://www.json.org/)), which is supported in many languages and is becoming a popular & lightweight protocol for data passing, including AJAX applications. HTH, dean On 2/14/06, Geoff L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > about the code generated. > result = service.SearchContacts(SearchContactsRequest.new(‘some\_name’)) > > > such as apache and an (2)application server such as that provided by – Dean W. [http://www.aspectprogramming.com](http://www.aspectprogramming.com) [http://www.newaspects.com](http://www.newaspects.com) [http://www.contract4j.org](http://www.contract4j.org) ---
**Author:** ![Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce73a5/32.png) [@Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Arjun_Khanna)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-interactions-with-appservers-such-as-oracle-jboss/53795/7 "2006-02-14T21:29:04Z")
Arjun Khanna wrote: > Thanks much. I am really glad to hear that Ruby development is a lot > easier than EJBs. However, there is some logic already embedded in the > EJB’s and there is a fair chance of saving execution time by re-using > that logic. So my question still stands- Are there any known > projects/weblogs/documentation-sets where I can readup on success or > problems related to integrating, making calls outs to EJB’s from Ruby. > Thanks in advance for your help. I appreciate it. I believe Obie F.’ forthcoming book will cover these sorts of things. – James B. [http://www.ruby-doc.org](http://www.ruby-doc.org) - Ruby Help & Documentation [Ruby Code & Style](http://www.artima.com/rubycs/) - The Journal By & For Rubyists [http://www.rubystuff.com](http://www.rubystuff.com) - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff [http://www.30secondrule.com](http://www.30secondrule.com) - Building Better Tools ---
**Author:** ![Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce73a5/32.png) [@Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Arjun_Khanna)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 7:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-interactions-with-appservers-such-as-oracle-jboss/53795/8 "2006-02-16T07:30:48Z")
Are you specifically talking about integration with Rails or are you considering using something like JRuby to run Ruby code within JBoss? Tim K. ---
**Author:** ![Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce73a5/32.png) [@Arjun\_Khanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Arjun_Khanna)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-interactions-with-appservers-such-as-oracle-jboss/53795/9 "2006-03-10T19:11:10Z")
Hi, I am interested to know how you made out with your work. I am interested in doing the same as you. Did you find any resources with information on how to make calls to EJBs from Ruby? If anyone could help, that would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Tony P.S. I’ve purchased “Enterprise Integration with Rails” and read it but have not found how to set up, or make calls to an EJB.