[fedora-java] DBus and Java

[Colin Walters]

On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 13:45 +0100, Joe Desbonnet wrote:
> I understand that the long term plan with Fedora is to expose all
> system configuration information via DBus. 

I wouldn't say that, really.  I don't think anyone is going to make a
D-BUS service for exposing Apache configuration, for example.  That's
not to say it wouldn't be neat if it just happened, but I think it would
be of less value than some other things we could be spending time on.

> Are there any Java bindings
> for this yet?

Not yet, no.  The Java-GNOME people are working on it though:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2005-February/002180.html

> Part of the reason I ask is I'm wondering what is (or will be) the
> correct way to query locally installed RPMs.

I think Robin's correct; your best bet now is just to invoke rpm.
Alternatively there might be Java bindings to the librpm.