Curiously enough those same organizations and governments then run Java web apps on their servers. Java isn't a security risk, Java applets running inside a browser are the problem. And that's blocked by browsers nowadays.
I don't understand why this is relevant to the original discussion though... -- Nicolás 2018-02-17 15:27 GMT-03:00 john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com>: > The JAVA issue comes up as many use work machines and since JAVA has been > identified by the US government as a security risk some time ago many > organisations do not permit it's installation on their equipment. > > Which means in simple terms you can't use the building_tool plugin when > mapping buildings and with new mappers that hurts data quality. > > Cheerio John > > On 17 Feb 2018 1:18 pm, "Mike N" <nice...@att.net> wrote: >> >> On 2/17/2018 11:01 AM, James wrote: >>> >>> except it wouldnt be multiplatform and only run on windows 🤢🤮. Java is >>> a better alternative as it's a popular language and is multiplatform. C/c++ >>> is a bit more complicated and not everyone can contribute. >> >> >> That's no longer true - .Net is open source and generates multiplatform >> code and the C# language has an open source reference. >> >> That being said, Java is quite suitable for JOSM, and the security issues >> would rarely if ever surface in JOSM. The big question is how well does >> JOSM serve as an OSM editor? Quite well by a number of indicators. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
