Serial Port Programming

[crypto]

Hi,

I am writing a program that interfaces with a serial port device
(router). This application must work for both Linux and Windows
machines. As such, I would like to use Java.

I would like to know what free libraries are available to do serial
communications programming in Java for Linux and for Windows.

I understand that there is javax.comm which is for Windows/Solaris
only. Is there one that will work for both Windows and Linux? If not,
what are the libraries which I may use?

Thanks,
C29

 

[Richard Wheeldon]

I would like to know what free libraries are available to do serial
communications programming in Java for Linux and for Windows.

http://users.frii.com/jarvi/rxtx/

Richard

 

[fg]

The javacomm API does it for you....

http://java.sun.com/products/javacomm/

Since it has to access natives method, there are various implementations,
for different platforms...

 

[Dale King]

http://users.frii.com/jarvi/rxtx/

I second the recommendation for RXTX. I would like to add that RXTX can
be made compatible with Sun's JavaComm API, but I recommend against it.
There really is no point in trying to be compatible with Sun's lousy,
poorly designed CommApi that they have refused to update since before
the days of JDK1.2.