Re: pl/java status

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 13:41 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> John R Pierce wrote:
> > is pl/java kind of dead? I don't see much activity since years ago.
>
> I've been a bit worried about that myself. With OpenJDK and a GPL java,
> it makes a lot of sense to make Java a first-class PL in PostgreSQL.
> There's a fair bit of activity from Java-using users, and there's not
> really much reason Java should be restricted to the client side when the
> same language can work well server-side too.
>
> Not to mention all those Oracle users out there who're hooked on the stuff.
>
> Of course, Java is extremely thread-happy and PostgreSQL is extremely
> *not*, so perhaps there are reasons it doesn't seem to see much work. If
> it's anything like working on an embedded Python interpreter...

Mostly, I think you will find that the back end developers aren't fond
of Java and thus, it doesn't get much love.

There is a reason that plPerl is king in this community (and I don't
even like Perl).

Joshua D. Drake

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