Re: [jruby-user] SOAP Libraries, was: JRuby 1.7.17: getppid unsupported or native support failed to load

Michael -

That's good information, thanks.

- Keith

On 12/20/2014 7:02 PM, Michael Pitman wrote:
> Hi Keith,
>
> We've used Savon for a couple of years now and it's been pretty good. 
> There have been a couple of hiccups with compatibility with jruby, but 
> they were easily identified and quickly resolved (eg there was some 
> code passing a symbol when some jruby code was expecting a string).
>
> The integration with WSDL is fairly seamless. SOAP exceptions are easy 
> to handle, and processed quite naturally through ruby exceptions. I 
> remember finding a couple of rough edges with some inconsistent naming 
> inside hashes, but haven't dealt with them for a while, so I suspect 
> they were minor annoyances at the time.
>
> On whole it's been a good, solid choice. We're 100% java/jruby in 
> production and 90% MRI in development, so libraries like this, that 
> work well in both environments, are important to us.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> On 21 December 2014 at 06:46, Keith Bennett <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Michael -
>
>     An unrelated question...how are you finding Savon? Did you need
>     compatibility with MRI Ruby?  I ask because my impression was that
>     if I were to deal with SOAP in JRuby, I'd use a Java library since
>     the Java world has been using SOAP so heavily for a long time. 
>     But I never tried it, so I don't have any idea if that is really a
>     wise approach.
>
>     I once tried to use Soap4R many years ago, and it was a disaster. 
>     I heard that Savon was better, but I don't know how much better.
>
>     - Keith
>
>     Keith R. Bennett
>     http://about.me/keithrbennett
>
>
>