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Re: RXTX Communication API javadocs

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On 6/28/2014 15:12, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:45:17 -0700, ookachaka wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, February 15, 2009 9:46:50 PM UTC-8, Chanchal wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> Anyone having link to javadocs of RXTX Communication API, kindly share.
>>>
>>> Thanks and Regards
>>>
>>> Chanchal
>>
>> Yes, there's something wrong (in my case).
>> The fril javadocs are not downloadable.
>
> RXTX appears to be fairly close to abandonware at present. The rxtx.org
> host doesn't respond to HTTP requests or pinging. The domain is
> registered by Godaddy until December, but ownership details just show
> Domains by Proxy. There is a Sourceforge project but it has no files and
> there is an Android port too.
>
> The sources for Windows, IOS and Linux can be found at
> http://rxtx.sourcearchive.com/
>
> RXTX may be a Java class library, but there is evidently a healthy amount
> of native code needed to interface the RxTx package to the underlying OS,
> primarily because serial i/o is anything but standardised outside the
> POSIX world.
>
> I think your best bet may be to grab the source tarball from
> rxtx.sourcearchive.com, see what documentation there is in the tarball
> and then feed the Java source through javadocs.
>
> It is possibly a bad sign that I couldn't find either a build.xml (for
> Ant) or a Makefile (for the C sources) in the published file list. I have
> no idea what, if any, C documentation tool, should be used: you might
> like to try Cdoc since I wrote it to do sensible things if you point it
> at vanilla C.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
If he is using any of the new Windows (Vista, 7 or 8) I would forget 
serial IO and use some sort of conversion device.  I've used a couple 
that interface through TCP/IP and I know there are USB to serial devices 
available.  If he is developing for XP then the old Sun javax.comm 
package is the way to go.  It works pretty well and didn't have the bugs 
that RXTX had.  The Sun software has been unsupported for years but I 
know it still works just fine on XP.

-- 

Knute Johnson

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Re: RXTX Communication API javadocs ookachaka@gmail.com - 2014-06-28 13:45 -0700
  Re: RXTX Communication API javadocs Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-06-28 22:12 +0000
    Re: RXTX Communication API javadocs Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-06-28 20:18 -0700
      Re: RXTX Communication API javadocs Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-06-29 18:41 +0000
        Re: RXTX Communication API javadocs Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-06-29 20:59 -0700
          Re: RXTX Communication API javadocs Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-06-30 11:16 +0000

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