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7.10.04 17:26 Java Communication API (serial and parallel port) and Linux (

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Linux is not directly supported by SUN Java Communication API (" platform-independent communications applications for technologies such as voice mail, fax, and smart cards").

The RxTx project provides a native lib for serial and parallel communication for Java.

The installation is pretty easy:

Add libParallel.so and libSerial.so to your library path (or put them in ./jre/lib/i386/) and
add jcl.jar to your classpath (or put it into ./jre/lib/ext/).
Then download Java Comm for Solaris, put the jar file to your classpath and
change the driver loaded by Java Comm API to "Driver=gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver".

You can find here more detailled installation instructions.

Hopefully the SMS application I'm currently working on will be easily installable also under Linux (I care about easy installation, which is always not as easy with Java apps as it is with native applications, because if it is not easy people will not use it).

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