Re: the future of pljava development

Marek Lewczuk wrote:
> Magnus Hagander pisze:
>> Being a fan or not of the language really isn't the issue, and nobody is
>> *ignoring* the language and platform. We all know "the others" have it.
>> And we want it. But the core team (or more importantly in this case, the
>> people doing backend development, which is  partially a different thing)
>> aren't *java programmers* (at least not good ones, AFAIK), so they
>> really can't do much there. This is one of the reasons we have the
>> pl/java project separately - to make it possible to have people focus on
>> what they know and are good at.
> I didn't wanted to say that all PostgreSQL core developers should start
> working on pljava - I just wanted to ask whether we can ask for help
> with C,JNI and PostgreSQL backend cause that is the problem.

C and the backend you can certainly get help with from the -hackers
crowd. You'll have a harder time with the JNI stuff, I assume.

>> Oh, and both DB2 and SQLServer has .Net support for stored procedures,
>> and we don't have that at all - so you could make an equally strong
>> argument that the core people should focus on that. Which has even less
>> chance of happening :-)
> Good point, but from the other hand there are plenty of programing
> languages but Java is the most popular :-) (source:
> http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm).

Well, as with most such studies, you can find one that shows anything
you want :-) But again, that's irrelevant really - it's an important
platform that we want to support, doesn't matter where on the toplist it
is, we all know it's there somewhere.

//Magnus