On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:57:43PM +0100, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> > > Sample output from my node is at:
> > >
> > > http://www.netmud.com/freenet/PerMinute.htm
> > >
> > > -glenn
> > 
> > Very nice, I would love to see this kind of thing integrated into Fred. :)
> > Graphs are much easier on the eyes  :p
<>
> Integration of plotting into Fred is a different story though. Getting,
> or coding, a plotting class in java is probably completely managable,
> but there are real issues with doing graphics in java daemons. Firstly
> the graphics stuff has changed a lot between 1.1 and 1.2 (and Kaffe has
> only 1.1 support in it's AWT library), and most libraries you'll find
> assume 1.2. Also, I found that the IBM JVM on Linux (our prefered
> platform) will actually crash if you try to instantiate
> java.awt.Graphics or java.awt.Image classes if there is no X11 monitor
> present (even if there are no windows created). If somebody has any
> ideas, I'm all ears, but given the complication I don't think automatic
> plotting is worth it.

It's the kind of thing that people are free to explore with servlets,
using whatever Java 2 or open or closed 3rd party libs they desire.
If someone comes up with something that isn't hideously bloated and that
meets our license and compatibility requirements we could include it
with the distribution.

-tc
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