[lug] Java Serial port programming on Linux

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 16:54, Bryan Field-Elliot wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been developing in Java on Linux for about two years now. Today I'm
> helping a friend develop a small application which will do some heavy
> serial port I/O. To my horror I'm discovering that it's possible
> (although I'm not sure) that serial port I/O is not supported in Java on
> Linux (Sun JDK 1.3). Can anyone confirm this?
> 
> Thank you!


There is a javax.comm package but, for Linux, it was *very* beta as of
early this summer:

  http://java.sun.com/products/javacomm/index.html
  http://www.interstice.com/~kevinh/linuxcomm.html


hth,
Ed

ps - You might also want a serial port debugger/snooper:

       http://sourceforge.net/projects/ssnooper/


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