If you decide to use it, you should read all the terms. No idea how long ${NYSE[ORCL]} will offer this, nor whether they would grandfather existing users if and when they decided to end the free plan.
@musicman I’ve mostly stayed away from the #Java world the last few years. A combination of not being allowed to use it at work and seeing what #Oracle is doing to anyone that is immersed in that ecosystem.
But back in the day, I remember experimenting with McKoi and Apache Derby as part of a Java based help desk app I was writing.
Oracle eventually contributed the Hudson project, trademarks, and other “IP” to the #Eclipse Foundation, but failed to win back the community. The project was relicensed from #LGPL to Eclipse Public License, but that also failed to shift the momentum from Jenkins to Hudson. By 2016 or 2017, the Hudson project announced its demise.
Is the #MySQL #JDBC mysql-connector-j driver very different from the #MariaDB version? I would expect that they try to stay pretty close to upstream, so that their software is easily inserted in place of #Oracle MySQL.
@xrevan86 @clacke Years ago, #InnoDB was produced by an independent company, just as #Sleepycat (BerkeleyDB ... BDB engine) was. I don't know if it was possible to use InnoDB separately from #MySQL even then. #Oracle bought Sleepycat and then Inno, and finally #Sun.
I've been using it for somewhere around 20 years (+/-2 years), having encountered it in a college course (replacing Hughes #MiniSQL).
@dragnucs Oh, I've never touched JBoss, so no idea how easy or hard it is to set up.
I am wondering whether #Oracle's #Java licensing push is going to kill the #JEE market except for inside the very largest corporations. I cannot imagine a medium sized organization that would want to risk a lawyer letter from ORCL.
@jaywink@iliketoast.net That is *very* bad news. I switched completely to #MariaDB because #Oracle was making proprietary-like moves with #MySQL. In one step, MariaDB Corp has leapfrogged Oracle. I won't say they've gone #evil yet, but this is definitely not a positive development.