A software architect friend wrote me with a question I can't answer 
because I don't do Java. I though I would see if any one has any 
comments on his idea, or links to resources.

Thanks,

Scott

He wrote:

I'm thinking for the start-up that I will be working with of using an 
architecture with Rails as the web site, but the back end consisting 
of a cluster of various long-running services and integrations with 
other financial institutions, to use java.  It seems that all of the 
enterprise middleware is java-based, so if you want to do something 
in that area, you kinda have to use java or at least something that 
compiles down to java byte code.

The motivation would be to try to take advantage of the productivity 
gains of RAILS at least for those portions of the site.

The Ruby front end would function as a client of the business servers 
using REST or some other API; or it could use the java JMS API to 
access the queuing middleware, if we use jRuby.

Do you have any thoughts on this architecture?  Warnings?   
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