IPerf as a shared library?

[Federico Tello Gentile <fgentile --at-- sol.info.unlp.edu.ar>]

Hi everyone. I am evaluating the effort required to take iperf and pack 
it inside a shared library (DLL in a windows env.) so I could call it 
from a Java application.

I still have to figure out how to capture the standard and error outputs 
to send them back to the caller, but I guess there must be some way.

Jperf requires iperf to be installed in the path, but I'd like to bundle 
iperf as a native lib in a jar file and call it from the java front end 
transparently.

The front end is aimed at testing some specific things and showing some 
result for an unexperienced user. For example, telling the user: "The 
transfer rate was X Kpbs and the jitter exceded the accetable values by Y %"

Do you think this task is worth a serious effort? Of course we get paid 
for doing it...

We think we will use java because it has automatic deploy tools (Java 
WebStart) and because we know how to write Swing user interfaces more 
quickly than in C++.

Thanks for your input.