Re: Postgres idea list

On 26 Jun 2002 14:36:15 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Dave Cramer <Dave@micro-automation.net>  said:
> Josh,
> 
> 1) There is an open source implementation of java
> 2) The jdbc driver is much better than it was recently we have made lots
> of improvements, and it won't affect jpgadmin anyway. I actually think
> writing the admin tool in java will make the driver better.
> 3) Don't see this as a big issue we aren't writing something esoteric
> here.

There are "free software" implementations of Java compilers and of Java
Virtual Machines.

Are there suitable "free software" implementations of _all_ the
libraries that you will be needing to construct the admin tool?  

In particular, can you direct us to a free software implementation of
Swing?

I doubt that you can, and _that_ is the characteristic problem with
Java.  The language is "free enough," but the libraries you will want to
use aren't...
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