Way to read Windows EventLog with Java

Question

Does anyone have any pointers on how to read the Windows EventLog without using JNI? Or if you have to use JNI, are there any good open-source libraries for doing so?

Answer 1

http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/wellink/archive/2005/04/08/3289.aspx and http://www.j-interop.org/

Answer 2

You'll need to use JNI.

Answer 3

You may want to consider looking at J/Invoke or JNA (Java Native Access) as an alternative to the much berated JNI.

Answer 4

JNA 3.2.8 has both an implementation for all event logging functions and a Java iterator. Read this.

EventLogIterator iter = new EventLogIterator("Application");         
while(iter.hasNext()) { 
    EventLogRecord record = iter.next(); 
    System.out.println(record.getRecordId() 
            + ": Event ID: " + record.getEventId() 
            + ", Event Type: " + record.getType() 
            + ", Event Source: " + record.getSource()); 
}