Inter-platform communication

Ruby
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Hi,

I’m trying to find a new way to achieve inter-platform communication.
I’m currently using web services to pass data between a Solaris
machine, a Windows machine and a Linux machine. I would like to find
out if ruby can help me out in any way. Does ruby implement any RMI
system? Does it have SOAP+WSDL capabilities?

Thanks,
Tiberiu

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On 25/01/07, [email protected] [email protected] wrote:

Have a look at dRb (distributed Ruby). It’s in the standard library.
It does not have SOAP/WSDL capabilities as far as I know, it uses a
Ruby specific protocol.

Farrel

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Farrel L. wrote:

Tiberiu

Have a look at dRb (distributed Ruby). It’s in the standard library.
It does not have SOAP/WSDL capabilities as far as I know, it uses a
Ruby specific protocol.
If you need XML-RPC or SOAP, then they’re both in the standard library
too.

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sender: “[email protected]” date: “Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 04:35:16PM +0900” <<<EOQ
Hi,

I’m trying to find a new way to achieve inter-platform communication.
I’m currently using web services to pass data between a Solaris
machine, a Windows machine and a Linux machine. I would like to find
out if ruby can help me out in any way. Does ruby implement any RMI
system? Does it have SOAP+WSDL capabilities?
Hi all,

You could also try the 9P protocol from Plan9[1]. There are at least
two Ruby implementations[2] of it and even if you won’t end up using
it, it’s definitely something worth reading.

Good luck,
Alex

[1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
[2] A sane distributed file system

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Hi. Thanks to everyone for the tips.

Tiberiu