Happy Holidays everyone. Work continues on my "holiday probject" have a self installing service that monitors blocking processes with SQL Server 2000. .net is great for windows developers, however its error handling sucks. Blew up the VM several times and had the joy of wading through the endless list of know defects.

Porting OpenNMS to Tomcat5/Tomcat 5.5 has been interesting. I'm still walking through the code and looking at the structure. However I did create a sloppy quick port to make it run under Tomcat 5. OpenNMS for Tomcat I plan to develop a proper patch and work to get it integrated with the sourceline shortly. However what I really want to do is get away from OpenNMS having a custom realm at all. I'd love to migrate the Authentication to the RDBMS and use tomcats native DB authentication. This will require a bit of work however assuming it can be made abstract enough it should facilitate porting to just about any AA system. (A Jetty port would be nice) After that it's time to look at the PM code and consider Hibernate. And finally I want to look at the collector interface to see if I cant cook up a JMX Client Monitor so that appservers and Java 1.5 apps can be monitored and finally write a SQL Server 2000 Monitor. (Blocking procs, etc.)

Three calls from work on Friday and one on Saturday. Hoping this trend continues. Happy Hanukkah.

So whats going on in Molitorland lately? Well I'm trying to liquidate the rest of my vacation (minus the one week I can role over). Its not going so well, average three calls a day right now. However I'm filling in the gaps by playing with SUSE on s390 hardware. I have to say SUSE is pretty well put together. I've only found a few problems with their RPMS (and SRPMS). I still think Debian has a better packaging system, however over the past few years it seems distro's have gotten much better about this.

Having problems building gnome-libs on Suse? I had to edit the SPEC file and added --enable-prefer-db1 in the configure options block to get it happy. Not sure if this is an error on my part or theirs, however works great for me!