Andrew Siwko’s Blog #2

The idea of a Java mail system is intriguing. I’d like to be able to have more control of my mail system. It’ll be hard to give up sendmail, though. http://james.apache.org

I could really benefit from spending some time working out a logging
strategy. Some output to syslog makes sense with the JavaCron code. Each
target class should have its own logger so they can run in parallel and
not lose or mingle output.

Weird things have been happening with belloc. I can’t correlate it
directly, but this machine has never worked for a long time without error
reading temperatures froma scanner. The other two boxes worked for a long
time. I am using IBM JDK 1.4 with Javacomm and this may be the source of
some of the trouble. I tried 1.4 on mary-grace but had to back out when
it didn’t work. The .available() method always returns 0. I’ve got a
listener registered now to see what’s really happening. There may be some
flakieness in the scanner also. I need to test it on another machine
before debugging this further.