Re: Random String Generator

["Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah...the fun of Java programming...   which, despite the best marketing
efforts in a long time... still reminds me very much of an electronic
erector set when you want to build anything more elaborate than "Hello
World".




-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Ralph Daugherty
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:48 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Random String Generator

yes, ouch, indeed. And that's just back end image manipulation in 
addition to front ends for PNG. And on top of core java classes which 
they are importing.

However that's only maybe 5% or less of the Batik project, which does so 
much more. Getting there though. If I have questions will post to the 
java400-L list.

But very rarely do I have a question that Google doesn't pull the answer 
from one of these lists.

  rd


Walden H. Leverich wrote:
> > I've pulled together 170 classes so far, mostly from the Apache Batik 
> > project, hopefully will get close to callable code pretty soon.
>
> 170 classes? Are you kidding? Just to do some image manipulation? This is
in addition to the core java classes, yes? Ouch!
> -Walden
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Ralph Daugherty
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:05 PM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Random String Generator
>
>
>     well, I was talking about the difference between getting time in 
> milliseconds and microseconds, so it was tongue in cheek to suggest that 
> an accurate time was being retrieved over internet for gettimeofday() 
> :), but I looked up ntp and very impressive that this protocol has been 
> delivering time accurate to within 10 milliseconds since 1985 using 
> something with as cool a name as a jitter buffer.
>
>     Having looked that up, I saw that ntp is built into Unix, Linux, and 
> a simplified version in Windows server. Do we have it in i5/OS, or at 
> least PASE?
>
> P.S. I won't have anything ready for a callable CAPTCHA generator for 
> the original poster of this thread in the time frame he was talking 
> about, but I've pushed back my other projects and still working on it.
>
> I've pulled together 170 classes so far, mostly from the Apache Batik 
> project, hopefully will get close to callable code pretty soon.
>
> This was something I had on my list to do anyway, just got to it a lot 
> quicker than I normally would have.
>
> PHP had an installable graphics library that is already integrated and 
> ready to go we saw from earlier posts. As for Java, it sounded like 
> Java's JAI library is the same way but with some licensing issues 
> (requires indemnification?), but I'm staying 100% Apache open source 
> with this. We on the i are already using Apache license code so it will 
> fit right in.
>
>   rd
>
>
> Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> > The "lot of slack"-problem has been solved pre-SOAP in the ntp 
> > protocol[1], so you need to write a ntp-client and call that instead :)
> >
> >
> > [1] Feel free to point out the redundancy.