Hi Sylvain and Bryan,
My $0.02 inline...
Bryan Pendleton wrote:
Hello Sylvain, thank you very much for all the contributions you've been
making to Derby. The work on IJ has been quite interesting to watch.
could be alternatives. For example, by using the Java scripting API,
we might be able to plug some scripting support in Derby itself -
with the additional benefit of supporting "well known" language.
Is it correct that you are suggesting an alternate approach along the
lines of https://scripting.dev.java.net/, using a language such as
Ruby, Groovy, or JavaScript?
If so, then yes, I think such an approach would be very promising and
very powerful.
I would prefer to see us spend less time building our own scripting
language,
and more time instead integrating with the variety of extraordinarily
sophisticated scripting languages that already exist.
I think that this is a promising approach. I am reluctant to add a lot
of new language to ij. At the end of the day, this is what I miss in ij:
1) The ability to parameterize a block of SQL statements
2) The ability to loop through a block of SQL statements
If this can be accomplished outside of ij in some other scripting
language (including old-fashioned scripting languages like shells),
great. If this can be accomplished by adding a small new capability to
ij (like parameters), also great. My concern about the proposed new
looping language is that it feels unbounded, kind of like pulling on a
ball of yarn.
Thanks for pushing this discussion forward.
Cheers,
-Rick
thanks,
bryan
