Jruby Blues

Man today was one of those days, I am about to give up on Jruby. Don’t get me wrong I absolutely love the idea of Jruby, great way to sneak in Ruby into the enterprise. But I don’t think it is quite there yet.

If you want to use Jruby and Spring all you got do is include these dependencies into your pom file.
<dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring</artifactId> <version>2.5</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.jruby</groupId> <artifactId>jruby-complete</artifactId> <version>1.0.3</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>cglib</groupId> <artifactId>cglib-nodep</artifactId> <version>2.1_3</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency>

And it works great,……………as long as you don’t have to use Hibernate. It just so happens that Jruby uses asm-2.2.3.jar file and Hibernate uses asm-1.5.3 and apparently the api is very different between these two versions, result is
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: net.sf.cglib.core.Signature.(Ljava/lang/String;Lnet/sf/cglib/asm/Type;[Lnet/sf/cglib/asm/Type ; ) V

Man this is frustrating, I spent all day trying to work around the problem but no go. Now here is the kicker, it works perfectly fine in eclipse and I am using maven 2 ide .

I spoke with my colleague (Tim) about this and he thinks it works because of OSGI which allows different jar’s depend on different versions of other jars.