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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@e.kth.se on 02/13/2002 09:25:10 PM Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shyh-Wei Luan/Almaden/IBM@IBMUS cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Java API for AFS Admin "Shyh-Wei Luan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
