Slightly OT: accessing serial port using Java

2004-11-29 Thread H . vanderLinden
Guys, This is slightly off-topic, but since there are so many Java experts around here, I hope someone will react and help me off-list. For a private pet project I need to connect to a microcontroller using the serial port. I currently have this running as a Delphi program on a Windows 95 machine

Re: Slightly OT: accessing serial port using Java

2004-11-29 Thread Tony Collen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is: how do I write the part that can communicate with the serial port? I don't know if I can do this in Java and I have never written software specifically for the Linux platform. I think I looked into this once a long time ago. There aren't any built-in serial

Re: Slightly OT: accessing serial port using Java

2004-11-29 Thread Jorg Heymans
Tony Collen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is: how do I write the part that can communicate with the serial port? I don't know if I can do this in Java and I have never written software specifically for the Linux platform. I think I looked into this once a long time ago. There aren'

Re: Slightly OT: accessing serial port using Java

2004-11-29 Thread Ugo Cei
Il giorno 29/nov/04, alle 20:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Guys, No gals here? ;) The problem is: how do I write the part that can communicate with the serial port? I don't know if I can do this in Java and I have never written software specifically for the Linux platform. I used the SerialP

RE: Slightly OT: accessing serial port using Java

2004-11-29 Thread Bernard D'Have
There is sun communication at least for Windows and Solaris http://java.sun.com/products/javacomm/index.jsp Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 8:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Slightly OT: accessing serial

Re: Slightly OT: accessing serial port using Java

2004-11-29 Thread Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert
The sun javax.comm api is there and it works on Solaris & Windows, but I don't think it has been updated for quite sometime. There are a few opensource ones that support the javax.comm interfaces on top of the serial io stuff from http://www.rxtx.org/ We've been looking at the SerialIO (http://

Re: Slightly OT: accessing serial port using Java

2004-11-29 Thread Skip Carter
> The problem is: how do I write the part that can communicate with the serial > port? I don't know if I can do this in Java and I have never written > software specifically for the Linux platform. One trick that I have used in the past was to write a small C program that talked to the serial por

RE: Slightly OT: accessing serial port using Java

2004-11-30 Thread Matt Innes
>> The problem is: how do I write the part that can communicate with the serial >> port? I don't know if I can do this in Java and I have never written >> software specifically for the Linux platform. > One trick that I have used in the past was to write a small C program > that talked to the seri