On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:49:57 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > To be honest, I also thought that it was written in Java until > recently ( well, I think I discovered that in the beginning of the > year ), but someday I said that on a forum and was instantly replied > that it was written in C++. >
I've always seen some trumpet-blowing about Java when downloading OOo, and of course it originally came from the creators of Java, so I had made the assumption. It certainly was (and is) slow to load. According to Wikipedia: 'Although originally written in C++, OpenOffice.org became increasingly reliant on the Java Runtime Environment, even including a bundled JVM' which accounts for the Java messages. > > About Java's security problems... honestly, the only one thing which > makes it true is that it is a popular and traditional language to > write portable web applets. Like windows being the main target of > hackers, in fact. I do not like Java, but I have learn that > performance and security issues are not a programming language's > problem, but a programmer's problem. To a large extent, but this year the Oracle implementation of Java for Windows was found to have many serious security bugs, so whatever was written with it would have had those bugs. Only if the programmer had details of the bugs could he have written around them, and in that case he would just have updated his Java. By the time bugs become common knowledge, they [usually] have been fixed. Here's one report of many: http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/33048/oracle-patches-40-critical-java-flaws/ Have a look at the sidebar stories, also. It is alleged that this year's large-scale loss of user passwords by Yahoo, as well as exploits at Google and Microsoft, were carried out via Java bugs. There are Java alternatives in Linux (and Windows, for that matter), which certainly won't have most of the vulnerabilities in the Oracle version, but as far as I'm aware they are a bit less functional, and I believe some applications require the Oracle product. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131010191320.1221b...@jretrading.com
