On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 13:45 +0100, Joe Desbonnet wrote: > I understand that the long term plan with Fedora is to expose all > system configuration information via DBus. I wouldn't say that, really. I don't think anyone is going to make a D-BUS service for exposing Apache configuration, for example. That's not to say it wouldn't be neat if it just happened, but I think it would be of less value than some other things we could be spending time on. > Are there any Java bindings > for this yet? Not yet, no. The Java-GNOME people are working on it though: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2005-February/002180.html > Part of the reason I ask is I'm wondering what is (or will be) the > correct way to query locally installed RPMs. I think Robin's correct; your best bet now is just to invoke rpm. Alternatively there might be Java bindings to the librpm.