Re: JAVA Support

On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Kris Jurka wrote:

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> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
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>> It appears that the JDBC client doesn't include the Kerberos  
>> support that the C clients do.
>
> Java doesn't have accessible Kerberos support.  It wraps Kerberos  
> in GSSAPI which requires the server to support GSSAPI instead of  
> plain Kerberos.

Looks like Kerberos is the only GSSAPI mechanism supported in Java.   
OK by me, but that's not the point of the standard (or the SASL  
standard).

>> So, two questions:
>>
>> 1) Is there an alternative JDBC client that's just a glue layer  
>> instead of a complete re-implementation?
>
> No, there aren't any Type 2 drivers around.  Requiring native code  
> is a giant pain.
>
> Kris Jurka

Requiring JAVA support for everything you can do with C is also a  
pain, isn't it?  (This incompatibility being an example.)

I take it you're not volunteering to help with my second request.  ;-)

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