Hi. Quick question. I've install a database like thingy (kowari) written 
in Java that I want to communicate with from a Ruby: send queries get 
answers. What's a good way to communicate from a ruby process to Java 
process, SOAP? RMI? Corba? A socket? Are there any wrappers that let me 
go from ruby straight to the JVM presumably via the java native call 
interface? It's all on the same machine, I need only to communicate from 
ruby to the Java Client interface that comes with my database thingy 
(kowari). The data to be passed back and forth is all strings. The 
client interface is a Java Bean. Does that open up any possibilities?

regards,

Richard.