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From: Arvind Nahata <arvindnahata@yahoo.com>
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Cc: Arvind Nahata <arvindnahata@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: JRE for FreeBSD 5.4, Monitoring FreeBSD
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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
> 


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