Hi, Thanks for the thought. I'm keeping that on the back burner for now. I'd prefer to pass data only at this stage, without invoking anything directly... - dan "Joel VanderWerf" <vjoel / PATH.Berkeley.EDU> wrote in message news:400727B5.6080105 / path.berkeley.edu... > dhtapp wrote: > > So, to anyone with more network programming experience in both Ruby and > > Java, my question is: if you were in my position, which approach would you > > take? Or, maybe more appropriately, what kinds of questions should I be > > asking myself to help make the determination? > > What about XML-RPC? That's in the ruby stdlib as of 1.8.0. > > >