Monitoring System Power

[mukorera]

Can anybody help me with java code to monitor system power,that is to check if a machine is running on battery or on ac power

[peter_budo]

Java doesn't support this. You need to do it in C or C++

[mukorera]

Thank you.In that case Can i have help with the c or c++ code that can be used for this,maybe i can then integrate this with java

[peter_budo]

This is Java section. You either have to create new thread there (and please "Mark As Solved" this), or tell me now and I can move whole this thread to one of the sections.

[JamesCherrill]

Lets not give up so soon!
Under Vista and Win 7 there is a system API for this which is very easy to access via JavaScript. Under Java 6 it's very easy to embed JavaScript. I'm betting you can call afew lines of JavaScript directly from a Java method to get the desired info

[mKorbel]

with JNI for example

[peter_budo]

@JamesCherrill any link for it?

@mKorbel to complex for student purpose

[JamesCherrill]

Don't have it in front of me now, but its part of the support for the vista/w7 sidebar. sidebar.exe is also a COM automation / activeX server that gives access to stuff that sidebar gadgets like to display, and battery power info is in there as well. I found jscript gadget examples that accessed System.Machine.PowerStatus.batteryPercentRemaining from that COM interface.
I guess the rest is just plumbing, although there's maybe some implicit bit of initialisation that Gadgets have that will also be needed.

[abhijeetdeb9]

this can be surely done by java,all u have to is make a socket program and get the oid values of mib database of snmp chip.

[mukorera]

Managed to get some tips from the c forum and It can be done using java,especially using linux.
all u need to do is access the file state from /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ACAD/ and use the information you read from the file to check if ac power is plugged in or not,u'll just use simple if statements,thank you all for your contribution