<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jun 12, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Arnaud Quette wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/6/12 Charles Lepple <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clepple@gmail.com">clepple@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; "> On Jun 11, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Arnaud Quette wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; "> * jNUT Java binding<br> the exact content of this task is still to be defined, but this should include native client access and NSS support,<br> the following will be considered with a lower priority:<br> - device discovery (JNI using libnut-scanner),<br> - configuration (using Augeas)<br> - mDNS discovery<br> I'm currently checking resources staffing with Eaton<br> </blockquote> <br> I'm not a huge fan of Java to begin with,</blockquote><div><br>so do I.<br>but having played with Android a year and a half ago, and having some requests more recently made me think we are still lacking a Java binding...<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; "> but if I had to interface a Java tool with NUT, I wouldn't want the hassle of native bindings (i.e. JNI) unless it was absolutely necessary. Most of the NUT protocol should be easily implementable in pure Java (including SSL).<br> </blockquote><div><br>indeed, native client access (ie implement the ascii NUT protocol in Java) is easy enough to be implemented directly (as we have in Python, Nagios plugin, ...)<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ah, I think we're saying the same thing. IIRC "native" in terms of Java is the underlying processor/OS, and I think you are describing a "pure Java" implementation.</div><br></div><br></body></html>