We just put out JRuby 1.1.4 today. One extremely exciting feature of 1.1.4 is a totally refactored Java integration layer. Charlie has worked his ass off to get this right and a number of people have stepped up to help him find regressions. The result is 2-20x faster interaction with Java objects from Ruby code. Believe it or not this work still is not done either. We still have more cleaning