Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 03:43:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Arvind Nahata <arvindnahata@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Cc: Arvind Nahata <arvindnahata@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: JRE for FreeBSD 5.4, Monitoring FreeBSD Message-ID: <20050822104353.28119.qmail@web50108.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <43059CFB.20407@iang.org>
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Many thanks to Ian G, Greg Lewis, and Ronald Klop for their responses! Please ignore my ignorance, but can you first tell me what do you mean by "PORTS" I am really confused and am sure it has some different meaning in the FreeBSD world. Also, where can I find all the posts of freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org? Thanks in advance! --- Ian G <iang@iang.org> wrote: > Arvind Nahata wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am looking at developing system level monitors > such > > as System CPU, Memory, FileSystem, Disk, TCP, > Process > > etc for FreeBSD 5.4 using Java and JNI, if needed. > > > > > I have a couple of queries regarding this: > > 1. Is it possible to monitor FreeBSD 5.4 using > Java + > > JNI? > > "Anything's possible" in JNI but it needs > to be maintained and I personally have > never found it easy enough to understand > and write reliably. > > What would be absolutely divine is if there > was a standard ports that exposed all the > system calls in Java. > > (especially, Unix domain sockets. See my > last post for reasons.) > > > 2. Is there a reliable JRE available for FreeBSD > 5.4? > > I've found the standard ports to be very > reliable, including the 1.5, more so than > on Linux where unexplained lock-ups in > threading persist. But that's not a > reliable indicator, it could be threading > bugs in the programs that just happen to > trip up in Linux. > > iang > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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