RE: Java-based license managers

Sounds like you might have to write your own :(  I wrote one in RPG --
but you could do the same in Java.  You can use the toolkit to retrieve
the system values (model, serial number) and an API if you would like to
retrieve the processor type... Then create an algorithm to create a
license key -- read a file from their local drive and compare the values
-- then you would have the license check that is unique to their 400. 

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From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Simon Coulter
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:48 AM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Re: Java-based license managers


On 14/07/2005, at 2:11 AM, James H H Lampert wrote:

> Anybody got any familiarity with Java-based, platform-independent 
> license managers?

No, and I know this is the Java list but ...

> We've got a Java-based AS/400-connectivity product we'd like to be 
> able to release, but without any AS/400-resident components, we can't 
> very well tie the authorization code to a specific model/serial/LPAR, 
> the way we do our other products.

Why not create a very thin host component containing only a product 
library, product definition, and product load objects? Then you can 
call the OS/400 licensing APIs from Java via the Remote Command Host 
Server to verify or acquire a licence.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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