---- Kristian Rink <
kawazu@...> wrote:
>"Talking about anything server, I don't see no benefit in bundling it."
I disagree. I think having Glassfish bundled is a very good thing and saves people a lot of time and makes going through the tutorials a lot faster. Besides, just because you run a local instance doesn't mean that what you generate is bound to it...not at all.
>"So, I wonder who could actually benefit from having an SQL server
>database bundled with an IDE installation, possibly even having
>components depending on it to be installed locally?"
Well, all those who want to work the many tutorials that are MySQL based for one. Oh, and maybe some folks have more experience using MySQL than Derby...maybe some folks like MySQL better than Derby...etc., etc.
Look, if you are going to add a database anyway, why not allow the option to which one gets downloaded and installed? I just don't see why anyone would want to refuse someone the option of having MySQL installed as the database that comes with NetBeans (as long as the resources are there to make this happen of course). If the user wants Derby instead, then that's fine, but as for me (and several others it seems) giving us the option for MySQL is a welcome thing.
