On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 15:33 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > David G. Mackay wrote: > > Well, I try to make my searches specific to what I'm looking for. The > > more key words that I can throw at it, the less extraneous cruft comes > > up. > > That doesn't mesh very well with finding stuff that you don't know > exists yet. For example there is a nice pure-java clone of rrdtool > called jrobin that opennms uses to store and graph time-series values. > But if you didn't already know that, how would you find it? Even the > bigger things like cifs-in-java don't seem to be very well exposed. True, but if I don't know that it exists, I'm probably not trying to find it. To find out about the items that are, to me, unknown, I do things like subscribing to technical mailing lists, etc. Then, there are sites like java.net that specialize in java. Dave