Obtaining Hardware Info

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Minstrel - 13 Mar 2004 00:12 GMT

Hello,

I'd like to obtain hardware info about the system the user is running on.
What I'm looking for is a way to obtain hard drive serial number, network
card serial number, processor id, etc. I'm trying to build an application
which will hardware lock to a given machine based on that machine's hardware
specifics. I'm looking for a Mac9, MacX, Windows
solution.

Which java class would handle this kind of thing?

Thanks in advance,

Brian

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Christophe Vanfleteren - 13 Mar 2004 00:41 GMT

> Hello,
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> Brian

No such class exists, and I'm pretty sure you'd have to write native code
for all of these platforms to make such a thing work.

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Kind regards,
Christophe Vanfleteren

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Roedy Green - 17 Mar 2004 01:52 GMT

>Which java class would handle this kind of thing?

Likely you will need custom JNI code. Some CPUs don't have serial
numbers. See http://mindprod.com/products.html#CPUSER for asm to get
Pentium serial number.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jni.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jconfig.html

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Roedy Green - 17 Mar 2004 01:52 GMT

> I'm trying to build an application
>which will hardware lock to a given machine based on that machine's hardware
>specifics. I'm looking for a Mac9, MacX, Windows

some of this stuff you can get from the System properties.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/wassup.html

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Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.

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