The TorqueBox[1] team is toying with the idea of exposing to Clojure the abstractions we currently expose to Ruby. We're looking for feedback from you guys to see what you use now to solve these problems, what you'd like to see in a possible Clojure "App Server", and if you might actually use it.
If you're not familiar with TorqueBox: it's an application server for Ruby apps, allowing you to run them on top of JBossAS[2]. But it goes to great lengths to preserve the typical Ruby development experience, e.g. no war files or XML. In addition, it provides the following "enterprisey" features to Ruby, built-in: * asynchronous processing (with futures) * scheduled jobs * XA transactions * companion services (daemons) * distributed caching * messaging (via JMS) Coming from a Ruby background, all of the above were pain points for us. Do these same pain points exist for Clojure apps? TorqueBox also supports clustering, which allows load balancing of the web component as well as cache distribution and horizontal scaling of async tasks, scheduled jobs, and services. Clojure has built in async processing and futures, but they use an in VM thread pool, correct? How would you scale that? A common TorqueBox idiom is to leverage Ruby in the web tier and Java in the services/data tier. Are there any Ring-based frameworks that make Clojure more appealing than Ruby in the web tier? Or does integrating a Ruby web app with a colocated Clojure service make more sense? It should be fairly easy to loosely couple them via messaging. Speaking of which, if you are using Clojure to process data generated by other apps/languages, how is that data communicated? Would language agnostic messaging be useful here? How do you currently run production code (web apps or otherwise)? We'd love to open a dialog about these and other things. Any feedback you care to share is appreciated, either here, or in #torquebox on Freenode. Toby Crawley and I will be in Raleigh for Clojure/conj as well, so we look forward to meeting you there! Thanks! [1]: http://torquebox.org/ [2]: http://www.jboss.org/jbossas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
