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JavaServer Pages? That's an interesting choice.. and will probably rule it out for a lot of people. I'm not running Java on my web server, sorry. Interesting that a PostgreSQL product licensed under PostgreSQL is using an Oracle technology. Edit - removed the MySQL reference.

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> I'm not running Java on my web server, sorry.

This attitude is interesting to me, because I use Play Framework and Dropwizard quite heavily. What exactly is the objectionability of a JVM versus, say, running PHP-FPM?

Maybe the objection is running the JVM on the server just for this tool?

As opposed to running rails or PHP just for any particular application?

Well yes, personally I wouldn't install Rails or PHP on my servers just to run a database tool.

Ok, but I wonder what you will use for a web-based database administration tool...

Given your apparent hate for the JVM, I guess you only run C web servers?

> JavaServer Pages? That's an interesting choice..

It's a GWT app. Some of the most awesome web tools I've ever used were written in GWT. Far from holding that against it I would see it as a promising sign that's going to be a high quality piece of work.

For what it's worth, TeamPostgreSQL is also a GWT app. Also, GWT apps are not JSP based, they are pure HTML and JS for the client-side.

I don't think anyone thought they were jsp for the client side... but surely they need some form of server technology for the server side -- and jsp would be perfectly usable for that?

JSP allows mixing client-side (HTML) with server-side code. GWT, and most modern frameworks, use regular servlets as the backend, and some (other) type of templating system with better separation.

You don't have to run this on your web or db or any other prod server.

Run it on a separate server or vm and point it at your db server.

http://www.postgresqlstudio.org/support/documentation/suppor...

Where do you see anything about MySQL?

I think he's just trying to make the Java->Oracle->MySQL connection. I don't see how using Java is in any way a vote of confidence for MySQL though, so the point seems moot.

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