Andreas, If you wouldn't mind posting some snippets that would be great! There seems to be a general lack of examples out there so pretty much anything would help.
-lincoln -- lincolnritter.com On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Andreas Kostyrka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 24 July 2008 23:24:19 Lincoln Ritter wrote: >> > Why not use jruby? >> >> Indeed! I'm basically working from the JRuby wiki page on Java >> integration (http://wiki.jruby.org/wiki/Java_Integration). I'm taking >> this one step at a time and, while I would love tighter integration, >> the recommended way is through the scripting frameworks. >> >> Right now, I most interested in taking some baby steps before going >> more general. I welcome any and all feedback/suggestions. Especially >> if you have tried this. I will post any results if there is interest, >> but mostly I am trying to accomplish a pretty small task and am not >> yet thinking about a more general solution. > > Guess I won't be a big resource for you then, the only thing that I did was > implementing a tar program with Jython that creates/extracts from/to HDFS. > > It was painful, but not to painful, and it's not Jythons fault, it's just that > using these clunky interfaces/classes is painful to a Python developer. Guess > the same feeling will come from Ruby developers. > > (and that's not a problem of Hadoop, I think that most Java APIs feel clunky > to people used to more powerful languages. :-P) > > Andreas >
