How to access USB ports in java

java usb rxtx
Petezah picture Petezah · Jan 23, 2010 · Viewed 97.7k times · Source

I'm trying to write a java application that accesses the usb ports to read from and write to a device connected through usb. The problem I face is that I don't know what exactly to use in java to do such a thing. I searched online and found something called JUSB but all the posts seem fairly old.

Currently I'm using the RXTX libraries but I sometimes run into some sync error. When I use C# to do the equivalent it requires far less code and I don't face any of the same sync error.

My question is, is there anything built into the latest version of the JRE I can use to access the usb ports (that is just as easy as the equivalent C# code)?

Answer

jboisvert picture jboisvert · Sep 19, 2014

Been using usb4java for a year on cross platfom (Linux and Windows) and it works great.

See:

http://usb4java.org/

They are very active and have a very good javax USB front.

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