JotBot: Time-tracking application using JRuby, Ramaze, and GlassFish

 
JotBot is a cross-platform desktop-based time tracking application. It is written using JRuby, Swing, Monekybars, and Ramaze. The application is deployed on GlassFish on a VPS hosted on eApps.

A key part of the evaluation critera were better deployment and management and the options offered by hosting companies. The use of GlassFish enabled the JotBot team to focus more on development effort and less on sysadmin work and offered a solution that has been working with no trouble for a few months now. 

Sequel is used as the ORM for talking to MySQL and H2 databases and NetBeans was used for designing the screens. Here is a thought on the JRuby and GlassFish community:

There's a pioneer spirit, and that makes it more fun for everyone.

The detailed GlassFish questionnaire provide additional details on all of the above.

Posted at 11:00PM May 13, 2009 by Arun Gupta in OnlineServices  |  Comments[1]