> It will certainly work but you'll end up with Java written > with Ruby syntax. This was playing in the back of my head. But makes more sense when detailed from another person's perspective. A sensible argument one would expect from purists. Hence I have given up trying perfect my java -> ruby translation skills. The focus now is on how to implement the classes better in ruby using the language features. The price is time which we have agreed on paying. We could do the API from the scratch but feel that would consume a lot of time in requirements analysis itself let alone development and testing. Thanks Venkat -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.