Remus

RUE rated “JARS top 25%”

After one year since submission JARS had reviewed RUE and rated it JARS top 25%.

The score RUE obtained is:

• Presentation: 170
  (max possible 200 given for content- visual appeal, look, feel, packaging, graphics/sound/video quality, overview, documentation etc... )
• AppletPerfect: 240
  ( max possible 300 given for difficulty/complexity, correctness, approach, technique, style, etc... )
• Function: 180
  ( max possible 200 given for usefulness- to the net, ease of use, known bugs, operation, stability, etc... )
• Originality : 280
  ( max possible 300 given for uniqueness- new concept, new idea, improvement, Innovative, usage, need/reasoning, etc...)

We missed 80 points to make it JARS rated top 5%.

Heck, I even got certified by JARS as Apprentice Javaholic. Who cares, anyway?

June 2nd, 2002

RUE 0.52

Well, the bug fix release of RUE is out. As usual lot's of downloads no feedback. However now I'm not that confused about that, since I found a thread on Slashdot on this subject. Only a few peoples who makes the download actually install the software, and even fewer whom install it give feedback or contribute. The idea is that one project needs around one to two years (I'm not sure this is true also for Java) to have contributors and peoples interested in the project. The big problem with RUE is that I really don't know what should it be, considering that the new standard in monitoring (and management)JMX and the way it can use SNMP and TMN as protocols, there are plenty tools to do that even open source and Java ones. The way it works now is obsolete. This would not be an issue, but the amount of time I have to spend on it is definitely small compared to other projects, so features will come in quite slow. Anyway, I won't give up, people have to have options where to choose from, just started to have a few ideas how to make RUE useful and unique, even if the development will go a bit slower. But first specifications, because I don't want to start the development of the new release until I don't make a clear set of specifications, that's why feedback would be so important. What else ? Tyrex, playing around, and this for multiple reasons. First to have the Tyrex sensor I promised, second doesn't hurt to know a bit about transactions. There aren't to many documents out there about this, but I managed to find a few I liked. In case you are interested, here are the links to the documents:

• Nuts and Bolts of Transaction Processing
• Global Transactions - X/Open XA - Resource Managers
• TP Monitoring

November 1st, 2000

RUE, next version

I plan that till Mon, 16 2000 I will have the 0.52 version of RUE out. It does not contain any improved functionality it is only a bug fix release. Well maybe one thing in plus that the sensors are not anymore integrated in RUE but separate modules. Also I hope that I will have the Tyrex sensors by then.

October 11th, 2000

Applet Problems

Spent my weekend with some RUE bug fixes, the patch version 0.52 it's on it's way. Spent my week trying to solve the "certificate" problem for signing RUE (being able to run as applet in Netscape). I just start to hate more and more those Netscape guys, I don't know why are standards for if nobody respects them. Neither Microsoft does but at least in IE I can completely deactivate the security and run RUE. I just had to insert all over RUE special code just for Netscape-applet mode, when rue is mainly intended as an application, I really hate doing that. But the problems does not stop here. Now Netscape does not trust the Sun packages like jndi.jar and rmiregistry.jar, because are not signed. The ugly part is that I either force the user to consider all the classes signed (case in which I don't need a signed version of RUE, off course that if it finds one signed jar will not work, don't you love Netscape). The second solution would be to sign jndi & rmiregistry jar's which I don't know if I'm allowed to do. About Netscape and test certificates after a very frustrating week I finally managed to hack a method to produce X509 test certificates for Netscape valid for as long as I want. And I'm sure I will write it down in the next day's just to make the life easier for others who might have the same problem.

October 9th, 2000

RUE

Well it's been some time from my last entry. What happened during the last months. Well a lot. Why a lot, because I've got my open source project. If your interested go check http://rue.nolimits.ro, yes it's hot and strong, maybe not exactly now, but for sure it's going to be. Am I satisfied ? No, i mean i was for about a day, when the last version was released, but after that things got normal. There is also a lot of disappointment in this project. I'm not going to build it for me (do i will also use it), since I'm going to spend my nights on it, all i wanted is some kind of feedback, what people would like to have. I wanted to know that I'm working for something people will appreciate. After the announcement, i had almost 1000 visitors, ask me how many letters I've got. Answer 1. Tell me how many user subscribed to any of the mailing lists. NONE. Now maybe you will understand. Then i think-ed a bit about this, I'm sure if now there is no interest in this project one day will , I'm sure about this. Finally maybe a good optic would be to build it for me. I enjoy writing code i, like Java, and It's not something obsolete to say that I'm loosing my time on it, so i will do it for me if anybody will afterwards be interested in the project will be welcome, until then it's only my satisfaction. On personal domain, i didn't really had time for life, nor that here would be anything to desire attention (except my wife and friends, but they are all here with me), oh yes and now I'm one year older.

July 19th, 2000