I am currently looking at play which seems simple enough. Ordinarily I would not be opposed to learning Groovy / Scala / JRuby in order to use their respective web frameworks but with a limited amount of time it seems just a bit too much of a risk to do that. Given I am doing this along with a second project involving creating background services to track when students log in and log out of a computer. I am almost finished with the Windows service to do this but also need to develop ones for Linux (specifically Red Hat Enterprise) and Mac O/S. This involves learning how to develop natively for these platforms. I don't mind this so much as it gives me legitimate excuse for brushing up on my native application development skills which have been a little rusty not to mention learning the native concepts of Linux and Mac O/S.
This is off the topic of Web Frameworks but if anyone on here happens to be a native guru in Linux and Mac O/S background service development it might be handy. Failing that I can try my luck on Stack Overflow. I have bought about £100 worth of reading material about Linux and Mac O/S development but I wonder if being able to tap into native events which get fired when a user logs in and out is a bit too specific a topic for the books I have bought. I found such events in the Win32 API but don't at this point know if Linux or Mac O/S has such events. Polling to keep checking the current user is a possibility but not as clean as being able to be notified when a login session starts and ends. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
