Gateway Software Symposium
March 16 - 18, 2007 - St. Louis, MO
Mark Volkmann
Software Consultant and Partner at OCI
Mark Volkmann has been a software consultant for Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) in St. Louis since 1996. He has been developing software in Java since 1995.
Mark has created and teaches many courses in Java, XML and Ruby. They include: Introduction to Java, Java Syntax for Non-C Programmers, Java Programming, Advanced Java Programming, Creating Graphical User Interfaces Using Java (Swing), eXtensible Markup Language (XML), XML Programming Using Java and Web Services Using Java, and Ruby Programming.
Mark is a member of the St. Louis Java User Group steering committee and a regular presenter for that group. He has written for XML Journal. Mark has also presented at XML DevCon conferences, No Fluff Just Stuff Java symposiums
and the St. Louis Ruby User Group.
Presentations
Ruby Plays Well With Others
Developing applications entirely in Ruby isn't always practical. It may be desirable to utilize existing code written in other languages. Also, implementing some functionality in Ruby may not yield sufficient performance. When these situations arise, Ruby can invoke code written in Java or C.
The easiest way to invoke Java code from Ruby is to use JRuby (http://jruby.codehaus.org/). JRuby is maturing rapidly now that Sun is financing much of its development.
C code can be invoked from Ruby by using wrapper code that is generated using SWIG (http://www.swig.org/) or written manually.
This talk will provide and overview of JRuby. It will also cover the details of writing C wrapper code manually, which provides the greatest flexibility and performance.
