attended the opensolaris user group this evening. great event.

what did i learn? hmmmmm. ok. how's this ... i learned that smf does not stand for sweet m* f* but instead is system service management facility. whatever, it is still a sweet m* f* to me.

my experience. upon migrating to solaris 10, getting the app installed, etc. it was time to ice the cake and rc the beast. that's when i ran up against the smf newness. well, it took all of a half a dozen minutes to realize this pup was gold. check it out. you won't go back.

scored some shirts (thx alan). met some great folks.

it's all good.

MyJXTA :: use it - learn it - do it

Java == platform independence
XML == application independence
JXTA == network independence

Secure End-to-End Computing

in my ears: Depeche Mode/Remixes 81-04/Strangelove

rehashed the jxta download site today. yup, it was that kind of a day.

pretty much making it up as i go along. trying to borrow good ideas yet stay within various process constraints with the goal being to incrementally make it better. as such, i welcome feedback. there are warts. i'm thinking about moving the ancillary links, those being maven and webstart up a page. well, they aren't ancillary per se but more akin to life blood ... but i digress.

ponder ...

here's the link again, jxta nightlies, so do feel free to pass along ideas of what works and what doesn't w/ the goal of making it better.

MyJXTA :: use it - learn it - do it

Java == platform independence
XML == application independence
JXTA == network independence

Secure End-to-End Computing

in my ears: Depeche Mode/Remixes 81-04/Shout

i posted this internally the other day ... in hindsight i should've posted it here and then dispatched the associated email pointers.

regardless, here's the skinny. one can configure jxta in roughly 3 (core) lines of code ... and here's how:

import net.jxta.ext.config.AbstractConfigurator;
import net.jxta.ext.config.Configurator;
import net.jxta.exception.ConfiguratorException;
import net.jxta.impl.peergroup.PlatformConfigurator;

public class MyConfigurator
extends AbstractConfigurator {
 public PlatformConfig createPlatformConfig(PlatformConfigurator configurator)
 throws ConfiguratorException {
   ((Configurator)configurator).setName("foo");
   ((Configurator)configurator).setSecurity("bar", "bop");

   return configurator.getPlatformConfig();
 }
}

now, in order to register your newly minted implemenation as the platform configuration delegate a registration one liner is all that is needed to close the loop:

import net.jxta.ext.config.AbstractConfigurator;
...
AbstractConfigurator.register(MyConfigurator.class);
...

jxta configuration is trivial. check it out. you can do way more with ext:config then what is exemplified in this trivial code frag.

MyJXTA :: use it - learn it - do it

Java == platform independence
XML == application independence
JXTA == network independence

Secure End-to-End Computing

in my ears: Depeche Mode/Ibiza/I Feel Love