Re: Three weeks left until feature freeze

Tom,

> What about licensing issues?  Does PL/Java work with any entirely-open-source
> JVMs?  If not, what is the legal situation for distributing PG+PL/Java?

Actually, Sun has re-licensed the JRE to make it OSS-compatible (it's 
now available for Debian, for example)  They're doing a Java licensing 
session at  OSCON if you have any specific questions, or I can ping the 
Java Licensing Guru directly.  But even if other JRE's aren't supported, 
licensing shouldn't be an obstacle.

> 
> I'm also a bit concerned about size.  By my count, lines of source code:
> 
> plpgsql        19890
> plperl        4902
> plpython    4163
> pltcl        4498
> pljava 1.3.0    38711
> 
> IOW pljava is (already) bigger than the other four PLs put together.

That is odd.  Thomas?

> 
> I'm inclined to think that pljava is best off staying as a separate
> project.

I disagree.  One of the things I'm asked by every single tech market 
analyst, after replication & clustering, is whether we have support for 
procedural Java.  So it's something large-scale users want.  If PL/Tcl 
belongs in the back end, then so does PL/Java.

--Josh Berkus