Software Transactional Memory in JRuby - Redux with Cloby

After I wrote about using Clojure's Software Transactional Memory infrastructure in JRuby in my previous post. @headius has written an awesome wrapper Cloby in Java to use Clojure STM in JRuby and writing Ruby objects which can be used as Clojure Refs.

Here is an example code of using a Ruby object in STM.

require 'clojure'
 
class MyClojureObj < Clojure::Object
  def initialize
    dosync { @foo = 'foo' }
  end
 
  attr_accessor :foo
end
 
obj = MyClojureObj.new
puts "obj.foo = " + obj.foo
 
begin
  puts "Setting obj.foo to 'bar'"
  obj.foo = 'bar'
rescue ConcurrencyError
  puts "Oops, need a transaction"
end
 
puts "Trying again with a transaction"
dosync { obj.foo = 'bar' }
puts "Success"
 
puts "obj.foo = " + obj.foo

Some pretty good abstractions of using dosync and Refs in STM. So how do we use it?
Clone the code from http://github.com/headius/cloby/blob/. Build ClojureLibrary.jar with clojure and jruby.jar. Keep ClojureLibrary.jar and clojure.jar in classpath.
And here is the bridge I wrote between your awesome code using STM and ClojureLibrary.jar

#!/usr/bin/env jruby

require "java"
require "ClojureLibrary.jar"
require "clojure-1.0.0.jar"
include_class "org.jruby.clojure.ClojureLibrary"

clj_lib = ClojureLibrary.new
clj_lib.load(JRuby.runtime, true)

Now its pretty easy to use Clojure's STM. No raw usage of LockingTransactions or Refs. Enjoy Cloby... :)