Hi Noel, Thanks for filling me in on this. Your explanation was helpful as well as being further re-assurance that there is not much to worry about in regard Java.
Regards, Noel L On Friday, March 22, 2013 11:03:28 PM UTC+11, Noel Grandin wrote: > > > On 2013-03-22 13:52, Noel L wrote: > > > > Since my original post I've seen a LibreOffice post pointing out that > > the US Homeland Security issued a warning last January, about Java > > being a security risk. This appears to be the main reason why the > > LibreOffice people are moving away from Java. > > > > I did a bit of research on this and it seems that the area of concern > > is the use of Java in Web Browsers. The JRE is apparently not at > > risk, so I'm thinking that Java in an H2 environment is also not a > > risk, except perhaps where a Server is being accessed over the Web. > > My applications are stand alone single user, so there should be no > > issues there. > > > > Hmmm, no, it's really that. > > I'm also active in the LO dev community in a small way, and I think I > would have seen a major decision like that :-) > > No-one on the core technical team, is, at least as far as I know, > talking about removing Java from LO altogether. > > What is happening is that there is a drive to simplify some parts of LO, > from being a mix of native code and Java code, into being pure native > code. > Which is perfectly reasonable, because debugging a mixed application is > a major PITA. > > But Java continues to be supported by LO, and I don't see that going away. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "H2 Database" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/h2-database?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
