Thank you Prof. Ripley,
Since I needed to build a prototype very quickly, I ended up using
Rserve. I found it actually easier to use & setup with a couple of
caveats (make sure to use the latest jave-new client from the Rserve
sources from the rforge website ? the version on rosuda.org seems to
be out of date). An added benefit is that Rserve is actively being
developed vs JRI (latest Rserve version is from 1/2009, JRI ? 2006).
Thanks,
Dobo