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Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 5, 2019 at 11:28 AM

I believe the last version of TheBrain that offered this HTML export feature was v8. The software is now on v10. TheBrain seems to have abandoned their pre-v9 export features entirely.

Amontillado wrote:
I will need to present comparisons between some different software
>solutions. I’d like to produce something interactive, as in the way
>TheBrain exports to HTML.

Posted by satis
Jul 5, 2019 at 02:25 PM

I think poo-pooing the continuing security issues of Java are a mistake. It was just in 2015 that Frohoff and Lawrence found a dangerous flaw in the the way data was deserialized in Apache Commons Collection, a very popular Java library - it ended up affecting well over 70 Java apps to deserialization flaws. As a result of that cock-up Oracle actually dropped serialization/deserialization because the problem was too thorny for them to fix!

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oracle-plans-to-drop-java-serialization-support-the-source-of-most-security-bugs/

This problem has not abated in any way. Even as Java becomes less used and marginalized, we continue to see security exploits. Just two weeks ago there was a major issue with Oracle’s Java appserver:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/oracle-issues-emergency-update-to-patch-actively-exploited-weblogic-flaw/

Relying on a Wikipedia article ignores real-world usage, be it vs C++ or Node or whatever.

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/bm0u7x/java_vs_c_app_speed_on_android/

https://www.tandemseven.com/blog/performance-java-vs-node/

Microsoft is abandoning Java for Minecraft, which says something.

To me, Java remains a dog, and a potentially dangerous one. If I can choose an app that uses it or doesn’t there’s no question in my mind which I’ll choose.

Posted by Amontillado
Jul 6, 2019 at 12:18 PM

Python has security issues with its pickle protocol, its version of serialization. Python’s cure for that is to warn the developer that deserializing data from unknown sources is not a great career move.

But I hate to rush to Java’s defense. It’s a fussy language. Why is it wrong, for crying out loud, to put two public classes in a source file? What if I want to change the name of a public class - why do I have to rename the source file?

That’s a shame TheBrain no longer does exports, but there may be other problems with it. User comments seem to reflect a product that is a bit too beta-ish. I left it when I lost nodes several times, I think in version 8.

Devonthink for me, then. Give me a clunky interface and rock solid reliability over glitz and graphics.

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