Integration of Rebol in companies

[deglingo]

Hi,

I work in Java/J2EE domain for a big french company that has an important IT department.
I learnt Rebol a couple of years ago with the excellent book "Rebol programmation" by Olivier Auverlot.
I'm coming back to this thrilling language, that I would like to promote in my company.

I would like to know if REBOL 3.0 will make the integration with existing IT systems easier than REBOL 2.0 ?
REBOL 3.0 is supposed to use a sort of plugin architecture.
Do companies or people already plan to develop IDEs, plugins, drivers, connectors/adapters...in REBOL 3.0 for instance to interact natively with all main databases (Oracle, Sybase, DB2,..), with LDAP servers, with oriented-message middlewares, with Single-Sign On (SSO) systems,... ?
In my opinion, that's a good way to make a language emerge rather than keeping it in a sphere of specialists.

Could a Rebol application have the same robustness, scalability and reliability as big J2EE applications made of EJBs (with transactional aspects), webservices, of well-known frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate for object-relational mapping,...running on clustered application servers ? I totally agree that sometimes J2EE makes things very complicated, and I like the idea of Rebol to come back to essentials, and to try to make things simpler (even if "simple" doesn't mean magic).

Do we have examples of Rebol's use in companies (Rebol 2.0 of course) other than administration scripts ? for example, distributed & complicated business UI applications connected to databases, interacting with other heterogeneous non-rebol systems with lots of users, lots of concurrent accesses, a high activity,...

I hope that version 3.0 will make REBOL fully mature for companies world ! If this is the case, I will try to be one of its promoters at my little level.

[-pekr-]

Hello,

as I replied in another message thread, I would like to see those thing happen too. But what you talk about is lot's of work to do. In order to being able to wrap anything, you need REBOL3.0 solid Core, then very often XML parser, and only then you can implement webservices etc. stuff.

Of course we could probably wrap some external libraries for handling XML or other stuff, but hopefully R3 architecture is good enought to allow to support such stuff natively via plug-ins etc.

-pekr-