Working with Eclipse platform for my previous employer I never complained about OSGi platform. The bundles, the life cycle, the services specification – all this together makes a great foundation for properly designed application with a number of reasonable components. But the thing that always bothered me is the obligation to develop service bundles in Java only. More I think about this more it becomes a limitation.
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Tags: bundle, eclipse, jpython, jruby, osgi, python, ruby, scripting
For those not familiar with the subject following is a short explanation, all experienced readers may skip this paragraph.
Until now it was a bit of extra work to deploy a Ruby On Rails applications because there was no Apache module like mod_php for PHP – to let deployment happen just by copying files to a server. Tools like Capistrano are to help but the Rails community expressed many times how much they miss PHP approach. The situation has changed when guys from Phusion created mod_rails project. Last time I checked it was in a good shape yet missing couple details from the documentation. Despite problems I was stunned with a quick support provided by one of the developers. That was a good sign for the project. Now I feel it is time to check how things are going.
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Tags: apache, deployment, hosting, python, rack, rails, ruby, wsgi
