Re: [PATCH] sHype access control architecture for Xen

[aq <aquynh@gmail.com>]

On 6/21/05, Ray Valdez <rvaldez@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 6/21/05, Tupshin Harper <tupshin@tupshin.com> wrote:
> > aq wrote:
> >
> > >any plan to write the tool in other language, not Java? i guess not
> > >many people (include me) are willing to install Java on their system.
> > >
> > >since python is used in xen, i  think it is a good candidate.
> > >
> > >i will play with the code and give some feedbacks.
> 
> > Ensuring that the code compiles cleanly with gcj would eliminate this
> issue.
> 
> We will look into compiling the tool with gcj. Thanks. We will appreciate
> your feedback.
> 
> > but we still need java to run the binary code, dont we?
> 
> No. The tool is used for generating a binary policy file, which can then be
> loaded into sHype via the
> xeno-unstable.bk/tools/policy/policy_tool command.
> 

to tell the truth, installing java into any of my machines is the last
thing i want to do. if it is possible to compile java code to native
binary, that would be great. then java turns out to be even better
than python, right ;-)

regards,
aq