> -> PL/Java is well and interesting, but requires a barrel of non-free
> software, which makes installation and configuration anything but
> "slick."
>
I think it's a bit unfair to say that Pl/Java requires a "barrel of non-free
software".
Pl/Java doesn't require any software besides the Java Runtime Environment
and those who have an interest in Java is *very* likely to have a JRE
installed already.
I'm currently working on getting Pl/Java running with GNU's GCJ. Aside from
a bug in gcj (reported to be fixed by the gcj people), it runs fine with
GCJ. At present it requires the HEAD version and the GCJ 3.4 branch from GNU
(not released yet). Releases of both are imminent.
If PostgreSQL was equipped with an "installer" that modules like Pl/Java
could hook into, I'd be more than willing to adhere to whatever requirements
such an installer would impose. With the present lack of such semantics, I
dare say that the installation is pretty "slick" anyway. Read this and
comment http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pljava/genpage.php?readme.
Kind Regards,
Thomas Hallgren