[Nailgun-users] Anyone here?

[Marty Lamb]

Hi Charlie -

Somehow I missed your emails in November:

> Hey, I'm thinking of including Nailgun in JRuby for our 1.1 release, to 
> provide a faster command-line experience. Anyone out there? Is the 
> project still going? If not, can I help start it back up?
> 
> - Charlie


> 1) Signal handling. There should be events for signal handling, and the 
> ng client should register for and pass along all client-side signals.
> 
> 2) Run nails in a child classloader, passing along classpath from the client
> 
> 3) ng command should have a "try" flag to see if the server is up, so 
> that the same script that starts my app in its own VM could first check 
> to see if the NG server is running.
> 
> - Charlie


The project is still alive, at least in terms of use.  The code, like 
the website, hasn't changed in some time.  I'm actually using nailgun in 
an embedded device running PhoneME advanced for a project and it's been 
very useful.

I like all three ideas you suggested.  Two other ideas I've toyed with 
but not yet written any code for:

	- Defining some kind of jar file structure to deploy nails in
	  much the same way that a .WAR file can deploy a website.

	- Running over unix domain sockets in order to leverage file
	  permissions as a sort of security layer.

I have a lot going on at the moment and nailgun is pretty far down my 
list of priorities, but any code/features/fixes you'd like to contribute 
would be quite welcome.

- Marty
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Marty Lamb
Martian Software, Inc.
mlamb at martiansoftware dot com