[SNMP4J] snmp4j vs. Westhawk

[Frank Fock]

Hi Per,

I have not used the Westhawk stack personally, but several
AGENT++ have used it. Several months ago, a such a user
reported an SNMP encoding error in their stack. The bug
was fixed in due course by the Westhawk people. I have
not heared about other problems with the stack.

Personally, I do not like the Westhawk's design which
is not (IMHO) not "open" and could have been more
object oriented. Because of this and the lack of some
functionality (i.e. agent support) Jochen and me started
SNMP4J.
I think SNMP4J is now quite stable and I do not think
that there are any critical bugs in it. So, at last it is a
question of personally preferences which API to choose.

I have took a short look at your SMI parser which seems
one of the first open source SMI parsers. From the docs
I reviewed I am wondering whether the Mibble API can
handle multiple MIB modules in a file, and whether it
supports module scoping correctly (thus whether the API
can handle SMI modules correctly that reference two
objects with the same name from different MIB modules)?
Anyway, I appreciate any efforts to provide a good SMI
API for Java!

If SNMP4J users are looking for MIB parsing functionality,
they are welcome to take also a look at JASMI which is a
commercially licensed Java SMI API I wrote. It is available
from http://www.mibdesigner.com
For a free evaluation license, send an email at
evaluation at mibdesigner.com.
(The license for MIB Designer can be used for JASMI
as well)

Best regards,
Frank

Per Cederberg wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I just discovered SNMP4j via the comp.protocols.snmp 
>newsgroup. Noted from the FAQ answer that you might
>have missed the Westhawk SNMP stack that is also open
>source (or actually freeware):
>
>http://snmp.westhawk.co.uk/
>
>If anyone here is familiar with that one, are there
>any differences worth noting? Especially regarding
>stability, can I recommend to people to use SNMP4j
>for developing SNMP agents? (As this project is so
>much newer I mean...)
>
>Personally I'm not really into SNMP, but for one reason
>or the other I've ended up writing a Java MIB parser
>anyway. It is now available under the GPL in case anyone
>is interested:
>
>http://www.mibble.org/
>
>Cheers,
>
>/Per
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