Re: MySQL Gets Functions in Java - Enlightenment Please

Sorry but I don't know what would be supported. Perhaps someone else can
provide more info.

Here is a document from Oracle detailing their java stored procedure support:

http://otn.oracle.com/tech/java/jroadmap/jsproc/listing.htm#998299

Hope that helps.

John

Tony (Unihost) said:
> Does this include ALL the functionality of Java?  Objects, Polymorphism,
> Inheritance, or is it just a subset?
>
> T.
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> John Sidney-Woollett wrote:
>
>>It means that you can create stored procedures/functions which reside in
>>the database that are written in java (as opposed to the native SQL
>>programming language).
>>
>>Why would you want this? If you were more familiar with java than any of
>>the currently supported procedural languages, then it means that you
>> don't
>>necessarily have to get to grips with another programming language.
>>
>>This would be a "nice to have" for Postgres too - I believe that it
>>supports PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, and PL/Python at present.
>>
>>Oracle also offers the ability to write stored procedures in java.
>>
>>It's funny, even though I program in java all the time, I still write my
>>procedures in the SQL programming language (PL/pgSQL). Even if the java
>>language were available for Postgres, I'm not sure I would use it...
>>
>>John Sidney-Woollett
>>
>>Tony (Unihost) said:
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>>
>>>Can someone a little more clever than I (which means just about anyone
>>>on this list) tell me what the implications/benefits are of this  are
>>>please?
>>>
>>>http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/12/19/1628241.shtml?tid=108&tid=126&tid=137&tid=156&tid=198
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>
>>>T.
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