Thomas Hallgren wrote: > GCJ currently that has limited security. It is 2 years behind > mainstream in versions (they don't have Java 5 yet and their Java 1.4 > support is not complete). It is not stable and the performance is > nowhere close to the commercial implementations.
Frankly, that is all FUD. A lot of free software is limited or behind or claimed to be unstable in some way, but that has never stopped anyone from using it in the appropriate and expanding niches. Just look at PostgreSQL. Now, if the commercial Java implementations had acceptable licensing terms, I would consider using them, but they don't, so I won't. > PL/Java is designed to run perfectly safe with a JVM that has the > correct features implemented. GCJ has serious issues with security > and I don't see that PL/Java, nor PostgreSQL should make any attempt > to fix them. Well, we had a similar discussion about the time when the Python security support was decreed nonexistent by its author. Clearly, people still use Python, and people still use PL/Python. It's really easy to spread a panic by claiming that GCJ has "no security". That's clearly wrong because GCJ can be used safely in many useful situations. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
