new project with gcj, LAST

Wed Apr 14 19:04:00 GMT 2004

Hello everyone,
I'd like to announce the soon to be released project called LAST.
LAST (Localization of Administrative and System Tasks)
It's a Management Application for EVERYTHING (Apache, Samba, Cups, Bind,
Postfix, User accounts, etc.). It will allow "marking-up" of any
Configurable Application - without writing a single line of code - using
a meta-language, which I am also creating, called "Configurable
Application Meta-language". These are both implementations of my
undergraduate Thesis research.
The idea is to try and solve some of the management difficulties in
UNIX/UNIX-like OSs. Problems like bad UI design, 1001 different
management utilities to learn, slope of learning curve, etc. I wanted a
tool so simple to use that I can teach my mother to use it (or that I
could at least talk her through over the phone).
The project uses Java-Gnome and gcj. It's still in alpha, but does a
great job so far.
Anyway, here are some early screenshots of Last Manager at work.
http://last.doublebite.com/screenshots/
I hope to have the build scripts setup within in the coming days so that
it can be available for both JVM based and native execution (using gcj
obviously).
I'm also registering it on Sourceforge, so hopefully it will be
available publicly in the near future.
I'd welcome any feedback.
PS: I am having a little trouble after "successful" native compilation
of the project. I get the following error (this is the only output):
]$ ./last-0.1.0 -c mapConfig.xml
could not create widget: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
Trace/breakpoint trap
Note that the app does produce output correctly with the -h/-v flags
which give a brief usage massage and app version respectively.
Any help is appreciated.
-- 
Ray Auge <rayauge@doublebite.com>
Doublebite