[OpenAFS-devel] Java API for AFS Admin

[Shyh-Wei Luan]

We don't need to deal with the RPC. The implementation of the Java API
could communicate with the native AFS
administrative library (libadmin, which is already available in OpenAFS)
through a JNI (Java Native Interface) layer.

The libadmin library is currently used for the implementation of the AFS
command suite and the Windows Admin GUI. But it is not a documented
external API. The idea is to build a well-defined and easy-to-use Java API
around this C library, so that powerful Java-based management tools can be
easily developed.

Shyh-Wei Luan

Jimmy Engelbrecht <jimmy@e.kth.se>@e.kth.se on 02/13/2002 09:25:10 PM

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To:    Shyh-Wei Luan/Almaden/IBM@IBMUS
cc:    openafs-devel@openafs.org
Subject:    Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Java API for AFS Admin



"Shyh-Wei Luan" <luan@almaden.ibm.com> writes:

> Here a set of Java Admin API is proposed. The goal is to make the API
> suitable not only for administrators to write custom AFS automation tools
> but also for developers to write general and powerful tools for easy and
> efficient AFS management.

I have some questions.

As you know the different servers allow you to do a few hundred
different RPC-calls, is the idea that all of them should be accessible
though the java-API ?

How do you want to do RPC-calls from java ?
Is there a usefull and working package that can do that for you ?

You want to generate the RPC-stubs yourself ? Or you just steal the
stubs from some exsisting AFS-implementation ?

/Jimmy