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What are Java's capabilities for communicating directly with devices?

What are the common ways to communicate with devices or ports like LPT1, COM1, USB directly?

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native means unportable, so you need to interact with JNI or JNA if and only if the following libraries don't work for you:



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RXTX is good for COM and LPT ports. USB is extremely difficult; perhaps the easiest way is to create your own C + JNI wrapper for your own device drivers.



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Unfortunately, Javax.comm has Sun 2.0 and the latest RXTX - LPT parallel ports are not properly implemented under Win32. The result seems to work fine, but if you try to read from the port it is not possible.

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