Running java plugins in nagios

Dan Stromberg strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu
Mon Sep 6 20:34:32 CEST 2004


On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 04:11, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Thomas Schimpke wrote:
> > Hi Andreas,
> > 
> > 
> >>You know, perl has rather excellent database support through the 
> >>Perl::DBI module. I don't quite follow why writing it in the 
> >>resource-hog java would make things better.
> > 
> > 
> > Another thing is (I think, you already guessed it): I don't like perl
> > too much...but I'll use perl, if the "general opinion" is "better leave
> > Java alone..."
> > 
> 
> Or check out python or the command line version of php. Python loads and 
> compiles faster than php but has some distinct peculiarities. Both have 
> some of its syntax borrowed from java.
> 
> After all, There's More Than One Way To Do It. ;)

Python has little in common with java, other than being byte-code
interpreted, and object oriented from the ground up.  It also has far
fewer "pecularities" than perl - perl uses strange exception-values,
while python avoids these.

And of course, php looks more like perl than java.

> > Thanks for your advice,
> > 
> > Thomas
> > 
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