On Wed, Aug 30, 2006, Phil Tomson wrote: > Anyone played with or looked at ActiveMQ? (http://activemq.org)? From > their blurb:
No, but I used to have to support SwiftMQ, which is basically the same thing... <snip marketing bs> > ...yeah...well... whatever. I've been tasked with trying to get this > beast compiled to native binary using gcj (don't want to ship the JDK > with our box). And not being a java person, I'm lacking the > understanding of the Java alphabet soup... Given what we really need > to get done (queue up messages and send them around - oh, and they > don't want to use smtp) it seems like we could roll something in Ruby > that would be a lot simpler and get the job done. This is not exactly > my area of expertise; anyone with more experience with this sort of > thing have any idea how difficult of a task that would be? So you're talking about implementing a JMS-style message queue in Ruby, right? That sounds like a ton of fun :) Apparently someone mentioned a similar project on ruby-talk last year, but I don't think the code ever got released: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/172820 Later in the thread, someone chimed in with http://rubyforge.org/projects/reliable-msg/, which is why it never got implemented. On the roll-your-own front, several people (including in that thread) talk about the simplicity of building an MQ on top of a Linda-style tuplespace (ie, rinda). I don't really understand that very deeply, but I've heard similar discussions when talking about distributed job systems, which are essentially MQs with processing. Helpful, maybe? Ben _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
