Re: confused about the state of javax.comm!

From:

Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:09:10 -0700

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Lew wrote:

Joshua wrote:

Is there currently support for the Windows platform for this API?

a24900@googlemail.com wrote:

Do you see any mentioning here?

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

Or here?

http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=43208d3d

No? So I would consider that a sufficient indication that it is
unsupported.

Mark Space wrote:

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

Interesting that you both cite the same site. It definitely proves the
point, all right.

At least it looks like RxTx is current. Let us know how it works.

To get the unsupported Windows version 2.0, go to this Sun site.

https://sdlc4e.sun.com/ECom/EComActionServlet;jsessionid=FF2222E1D03814632AED95AB8D05A15D

Be advised that RxTx has serious bugs in it's Windows implementation and
I would not use it for anything that you wanted to work according to the
docs.

I don't really know why Sun abandoned serial and parallel port I/O for
Windows. They have updated software for their Solaris machines and
Linux but not Windows. As one who uses serial I/O a lot with Java, I
find that disappointing. I have not had any serious problems with
serial port I/O using version 2.0 with JDK1.4-1.6 and Windows XP computers.

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Knute Johnson
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