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On 8/23/06, kandlinger / gmx.de <kandlinger / gmx.de> wrote:
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> Hello, I am currently developing a webshop which uses a c/c++ shared
> object/dynamic link library for some functions. Currently I am
> evaluating which technology I should use. As I've got  a completely
> free choice I was thinking of Java Server Faces or Ruby on Rails. I
> never used Ruby on Rails before, so my question is: How big is the
> support of Ruby to access a c/c++ shared object/dynamic link library of
> which i only got a c/c++ header file ?


I would say this, from a Java perspective: accessing existing C/C++ code or
writing C/C++ extensions for Ruby is quite a bit easier than writing similar
code for Java using JNI. That said, JNI protects your Java application a bit
better from external bugs, though you can still crash it nicely.

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