No doubt, Oracle has a vested interests in making their DBMS's into application servers rather than just a dumb data-store, that's essentially what PL/SQL was about. Furthermore, I think Oracle would just loooove for more ways to offer upgrades to the latest and greatest embedded JVM version - that's how it is today, the JVM version is bound to the DBMS version.
However, working somewhere with lots of horrible PL/SQL to maintain, I'm not sure this is the right way to go. Then I'd prefer an easy (transactional and distributed?) way of exposing GWT-RPC and REST/JSON services (and no, not through various ginormous enterprise SOA stacks). This would be much more future proof and less invasive. Data will be around for a long time, client applications and the languages they're written in might not be. On May 12, 7:21 pm, Alexey Zinger <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure how many of the Posse listeners deal with Oracle databases on a > regular basis, but I remember coding against an Oracle back-end at my very > first Java job (almost my first job, period) and have been coming into > contact with those databases periodically ever since, including my current > work. > > I remember when Oracle 8i introduced JVM running inside the database, which > allowed you to write stored procedures in Java, instead of PL-SQL. And it > just dawned on me now, years later, that as a Java developer, knee-deep in > enterprise projects most of the time, never gave that feature much more than > a fleeting glance. The recent Sun acquisition has made me wonder if Oracle > doesn't have some plans to fortify this angle -- to open their RDBMS to > other, less traditional techniques. I looked around and found some > documentation regarding writing Java stored procedures, as things stand, and > to my disappointment, it appears there is still no way to marshal custom > objects in or out of Oracle using this technology. At least, it doesn't > appear to be its intended use. But suppose we could do it? I'm already > using GWT, which allows me to write a Java "bean" that can go seamlessly > between a servlet container and Javascript on the client. Wouldn't it be neat > to be able to extend that language interoperability all the way to the > relational store? > > Anyone know anything about Oracle's plans or lack thereof regarding > DB-embedded Java? > > Alexey > 2001 Honda CBR600F4i (CCS) > 2002 Suzuki Bandit 1200S > 1992 Kawasaki > EX500http://azinger.blogspot.comhttp://bsheet.sourceforge.nethttp://wcollage.sourceforge.net > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
