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From: Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
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Subject: Re: Which databases are the most used with Java
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:31:04 +0200
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Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> writes:

> On 8/18/2017 12:51 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>> On 8/17/2017 3:04 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>>> That is why I started with the wrapper: to make sure that a Statement
>>>> is implicit generated.
>>>
>>>> I also added a main so that I can use the classes from a script. For
>>>> example to check about 20 SQLite3 databases about being locked:
>>>>       java -cp ${_classpath} nl.decebal.sql.SQLite3 --areDBsLockedShowErr ${_databases[*]}
>>>>
>>>> If I want a message about the databases that are locked.
>>>>
>>>> And:
>>>>       java -cp ${_classpath} nl.decebal.sql.SQLite3 --areDBsLocked ${_databases[*]}
>>>>
>>>> If I want a message for every database.
>>>
>>> Have you consider instead of having a Java main then do the scripting
>>> in a JVM scripting language - Python (Jython), JavaScript (Nashorn or
>>> Rhino) or whatever you happen to have skills in?
>>
>> On linux bash (or another shell) is mostly used for crontab jobs and
>> the like. Because I am thinking about publishing it I think I should
>> at least have a bash implementation. But I could also write a groovy
>> implementation of-course.
>
> Java is good at many things.
>
> But for this sort of scripting I would go for a script language.
>
> And JVM script languages can use your class directly.

But then I have to maintain two programs: the Java and the scripting
language.
For me it would not be a problem to work with (for example) Groovy,
but for other people it could be.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof