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Dr. Dobbs Interview with Jelastic

If you didnt get a chance to see it, earlier this week, we got to sit down for a bit

with Adrian Bridgwater from Dr. Dobbs to talk about Jelastic now fully

supporting JRuby. Below is the interview:

Jelastic Now Fully Supports JRubyBy Adrian Bridgwater, January 22, 2012

JRuby + Jelastic = sweet option for developers?

The Jelastic Java server hosting platform for developers continues to expand. Onthe back of a refined Platform as a Service (PaaS) function at the end of last year,

Jelastic now supports Java Virtual Machine-based applications written in

languages including Scala, Groovy, and now the JRuby Java implementation of the

Ruby language.

Jelastic chief evangelist Judah Johns puts Rubys popularity down to its simpleappearance and the complexity that it allows for multiple programming models;

i.e., it is considered to be functional and object-oriented, as well as imperativeand reflective. JRuby is tightly integrated with Java so that when it is embedded

into a Java application, there is full two-way communication and access between

the Java and Ruby code, not unlike Jython (Java + Python). JRuby also fully

supports the Ruby on Rails web framework for Ruby programming, allowing

web applications to be run on the Java Virtual Machine.

Speaking exclusively to Dr. Dobbs, Johns said, Jelastic makes running JRuby

applications really easy. Once you install JRuby, there are a few small steps(install RoR and Warbler, which allows you to use .war files out of Rails) to get

JRuby up and running in the Jelastic cloud. Once youve done that, you are readyto create your environment within Jelastic and upload your .war file. All of that

takes less than ten minutes.

Up until now, there just wasnt really a good Java hosting solution out there.

Java hosting was actually quite tedious, if not stressful. There were a few options,

but they required code changes to your application before you could put it online and once you made those changes, you were stuck. Unless you were willing to

do some more code changes, your current Java host was all you had. That wasthen of course, said Jelastics Johns.

With Jelastic, the only worry that a developer has now is the functionality of theapplication. No more worries about code changes or lock-in. No more stressing

about having to manage servers and resources. Developers can just upload,

deploy, and go.