Re: Pl/Java - next step?

tues evening euro time is fine with me. I am at GMT-5 so it will be
afternoon for me. What time ?

We should attempt an agenda?

Dave
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 15:33, HORNYAK Laszlo wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Sorry for my latencies.
> An IRC chat is ok for me, anytime.
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:08:00PM +0100, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> > I'm in Sweden. Some time tuesday evening (european time) perhaps?
> >
> > Why is your work not made public somewhere? The project on sourceforge is
> > inactive it seems. Do you have a CVS setup privately?
>
> Yes, actualy, the sf.net cvs was used very rarely, so I simply droped it
> after a while. Now we use the CVS on Dave`s server, but it will move to
> a new server.
>
> >
> > > Not to minimize your work, as I think it is great, but this particular
> > > use-case I consider to be overkill for pl/java. It is probably easier to
> > > use pl/pgsql if all you want to do is calculations.
> > >
> > Not to minimize your work, but if the only thing you want to do is to send a
> > request to a servlet, that is very easy to do with Pl/Perl ;-)
> >
> > Seriously, when I say calculations, I mean any computed value that doesn't
> > involve database accesses. It could for instance be an implementation of a
> > soundex algorithm comparing two values or something similar like graphic
> > image matching. Regardless if such things can be implemented in pgsql or
> > not, the fact that there's a bunch of downloadable Java code out there that
> > can be used, with little or no effort, is enough to motivate my statement.
> >
>
> Java in the database has quite a lot of advantages, and most people
> would prefer using java instead of learning one more language for stored
> procedures. If we can show that it can be stable and portable, people
> will love it. It is their problem what they use it for :))
> I think one could use it for sending data into message queues, call
> validation with EJB methods, do complex analisis on it, check if a key
> exists in another database(db platform independent distributed RDBMS),
> or whatever, it would make a DB realy inteligent, and would help a lot
> keeping 2 tier systems out of trouble.
> /s/would/will
>
> Laszlo Hornyak
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > Thomas Hallgren
>
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