Re: Java(tm) Communication API support for Windows gone ????

From:

Dale King <DaleWKing@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:25:16 -0400

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Thomas Weidenfeller wrote:

anton wrote:

... and the fact that you must register to be able to download
it, this is new and I am not such a fan of registering here and there
for stuff that is free.

You can use RxTx without any additional Sun stuff. You only need the Sun
stuff, if you want to get Sun's original API (with Sun's package naming)
working.

RxTx comes with an own API, remarkable similar to the one from Sun :-)
But they are of course not using Sun's package names.

When you want Sun's original API on Windows, you take the Unix version
of JavaComm, since it is "pure Java", and you slip the RxTx drivers
underneath that API implementation.

And the subject line of this post is incorrect. Sun is no longer
*distributing* the JavaComm API. The fact is that they have *NEVER*
actually supported it. They put out a poorly thought out, badly
implemented, buggy API and never touched it again. There has been zero
ongoing support for it.

So in my opinion there is no compelling reason to try to maintain
compatibility with it. Standardize on RXTX. It is being supported.

--
Dale King