Java Serial Communication on Windows

java windows serial-port
Steve picture Steve · Nov 5, 2008 · Viewed 43.7k times · Source

I've been looking around for a Java API that can communicate with serial devices on Windows/Win32 but many of the APIs I've checked out are either for Linux, too outdated, or just had bad critics.

Can someone recommend one to me that they've tried or knows about that is easy to implement on Windows XP?

Answer

Murat Ayfer picture Murat Ayfer · Nov 5, 2008

I started looking for the same thing couple weeks ago, and I've been very happy with the multi-platform RXTX library so far. Works with any Windows, Linux and OS X. Has a very clean, easy to understand API.

edit: RXTX is also open source.

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