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I'm having some problems with the Robot API with JES 2005Q1 on Solaris 10. I'm not sure if this happens under other JES versions or not.
First... I tried to launch java from a robot plugin using JNI, and it was failing from missing libraries.. I renamed 'robot' to robot2 and created a shell script 'robot' that added the Java libs to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Then the JNI_CreateJavaVM failed to create the VM.
So I attempted to log the return code from the function call, and the API would not log it... So I created a 'hello world' example (below), and I verified that 'HelloWorld' gets put into the readACL, which means that the log statement should have executed, however, the log statement didn't go into the log file. The API documentation refers to a log level located in process.conf, and I am not able to find that file. So I bumped 'loglevel' to 99 in the robot.conf, as it is the only log level setting I could find outside of the Access Manager Console. Still nothing came out, but a lot of other information did.
NSAPI_PUBLIC int someFx(libcs_pblock pb, CSFilter f, CSResource *r)
int value_sz;
char *attribute = "ReadACL";
char *data = "HelloWorld";
int dataLen=strlen(data);
SOIF_Insert(r->rd, attribute, data, dataLen );
cslog_error(1,1,("fn=someFx: HELLO WORLD\n"));
return REQ_PROCEED;
So then I attempted to use the fopen, fprintf,fflush functions to implement my own logging, and my custom log files were created, but fprintf didn't seem to write to them??
Any ideas?
My questions are,
Is it possible to launch a JVM from a robot plugin? If so, what is the proper way to take care of the shared libraries and create the JVM?
What's up with the logging?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Presumedly you'd like those documents being accessiable by users as well, so they should be put on a web server, ftp or nfs sharing. You can just add the urls to those documents, or the directory they are in, into robot system as starting points and let robot run to collect them.