On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Guys, > > I've been looking into some service scripting around HBase lifecycle > management, etc. and couldn't help but wonder why those were written in > Ruby > of all JVM languages? Historical legacy aside, it seems that current HBase > is > still using JRuby 1.6.5 vs the latest at 1.9+ or perhaps even later. > > HBASE-7028 > At any rate, I was wondering if replacing Ruby with a more Java-like > scripting > extension (if the scripting-2-Java API bridge is what indeed desired) > would be > of any interest here? An obvious choice would be Groovy > To be clear, our having jruby in place does not hinder being able to groovy-script hbase? St.Ack
