# Trying to reach Florian Frank

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-reach-florian-frank/190829>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 28, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-reach-florian-frank/190829 "2010-06-28T21:41:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-reach-florian-frank/190829/1 "2010-06-28T21:41:18Z")

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Hello Rubyists!

I and several other JRubyists have been trying to reach Florian F.  
for many months to try to get a -java version of his “json” gem  
released. Lots of libraries depend directly on the json gem, which  
doesn’t run on JRuby because it includes a native extension.

So this is a public call to Florian to please contact me so I can  
connect up the appropriate people 🙂

If anyone else has a way to contact Florian, please pass along this  
request.

For the record:

- json has native extensions and can’t install on JRuby
- several other gems (such as resque) depend directly on “json”, so  
they can’t install on JRuby
- json-jruby provides the same API but works on JRuby
- we would like to be able to release json-jruby as json with the  
“java” platform

That’s about it!

- Charlie