retrieving hardware information

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hi, i'm designing an applet to retrieve user's hardware information such as CPU, hard disk, RAM and graphic card

I have found something for CPU, HDD.

However, i couldn't find one for graphic card and ram

anyone can guide me to that?

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I've used Sigar to get some of this information, but I'm not sure if it can get info on the Graphics card.

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sigar cannot retrieve graphic card information as far as i know, so i'm stucked at this area

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You're not necessarily stuck. You can always find a C library that does what you want and then link to it via JNA or JNI, or even simpler, find a small app that does this, and get the info from the app via I/O streams.

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so in short, i have to learn C language?

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I would try to do things in an easier way. For instance I'd try to use a utility program and try to get the info via a socket or a file. I think that AutoIt can get some of this information: can-autoit-get-hardware-infomation

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hmm, the problem is, how do i integrate this with the JNI so that it would run seamlessly for the users?

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*Again*, if you used that, you wouldn't use JNI but rather Sockets.

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but i'm working it for web browsers, so i not sure whether socket applies in this area or not