I agree with you - especially since I believe you are crafting nonstandard packets in some cases. This means you can't use the standard networking packages (I may be wrong - I too am not a java programmer). But all of this should be straight forward to fix with some native interface libraries. Each of them would be platform dependent but everything above them would be totally portable and familliar to a large population of programmers. Isn't that an advantage inspite of the different library sets? How -raw- is nasl?
dave braun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Not Available" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "alan donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:17 AM Subject: Re: suitability of java for vulnerability scanners > I'm no programmer, but there's a basic reason not to use java for nessus, in > my opinion at least. > > Besides performance issues, I would have used Java for portability benefits. > This means one could write a program and run it on any platform supporting > Java. > > Well, how could you deal with hardware in such a case? Different platform > would need different implementations, so there wouldn't be portability > advantages (one would have to use a different piece of sw based on platform > and OS). > > Just my 0,00002 ? > > NA > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "alan donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 12:25 PM > Subject: suitability of java for vulnerability scanners > > > > Hi. > > Please bear with me since I think this is the best > > place this question can be answered although I know > > this forumn may not be for questions like these. > > > > My question is very basic in nature. So forgive me for > > being naive. > > > > I wanted to know why java is not used to make > > softwares like nessus or nmap. Is it because it may > > not have the ability to make packets. Is there any > > such library(and to what extent can it be used) that > > can be leveraged in java which can help make a > > software like those mentioned above. > > > > Plus I have not seen java being used for such > > softwares. Rather C or perl seems to be a more common > > option. Can you shed some light on this too. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Regards, > > Alan > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Nessus mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > > > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
