Port to Java about blinky HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi @rastadrian

No problems, do what you like!

I'm curious to know why you want to though?

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Hey @perryn

Thanks man, I have some reasons:

1. I had an issue with the CCTray monitoring (I believe the culprit was Chicanery though) where the request time to our Jenkins CCTray would increase exponentially up until a point where every request takes around a minute and a half.
2. Our jenkins contains multiple directories for different categories of projects (every directory contains its own cc.xml tray) so I wanted the application to only download the tray once and verify the specified jobs on that tray, rather than re-downloading the tray per job check (I believe that check is handled by Chicanery as well?).
3. When our team manager saw the light (literally) he got excited and now he wanted to "verify" other things, not only Jenkins CCTrays but also Service Health Probes, Internal File Contents and even Time (like an alarm, at certain time, turn yellow for a moment) so I needed to heavily extend the library and I'm not very experienced with Ruby and here at work we have a big Java community.
4. Luckily LibUSB is also ported to java, so I could use an architecture very similar to blinky.
5. And now that the light verifies so many stuff, our team also wanted a UI that showed the reasons the lights went red, so by using Java I could create a web application using Spring Framework which is heavily supported at work.

Thank you again for the inspiration!
Here's the jBlinky project: https://github.com/rastadrian/jblinky

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