Small footprint JRuby
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Key: JRUBY-2396
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-2396
Project: JRuby
Issue Type: Wish
Affects Versions: JRuby 1.1
Reporter: Don DeCoteau
Assignee: Thomas E Enebo
I have a runtime that dynamically downloads markup and generates a desktop
application from the markup.
The generated applications are integrated and controlled via scripting. This
allows desktop applications to be built the same way that traditional browser
applications are built. In addition to the markup any supplemental jar files
needed for the application can also be downloaded and integrated dynamically.
This includes the jars for the JSR 223 scripting engine of choice. For more
complicated applications ruby is a better choice than javascript. However the
javascript engine is 278KB and the ruby engine is 4MB (and is slower to load).
Because of the way code can be dynamically downloaded all that is really needed
is the Ruby core. The developer can then bundle any additionally required
modules in a separate jar. A smaller footprint would reduce download time and
should theoretically improve startup performance.
Basically, I would like to leverage the ruby syntax on top of Java, without
having to have all the other modules, which are great for middleware apps, but
unnecessary overhead for thin-client desktop apps.
Thanks,
Don
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