On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 23:29 -0600, doh123 wrote: > a Windows specific java app? thats freaky... java is supposed to be > all about not requiring a certain platform.... are you sure it has to > run on a Window install of a java virtual machine... and can't just > run on a Linux one? I wonder why anyone would take the time to write > an app in Java just to lock it down to Windows only... > Thats true as long as the app only uses a GUI, files, databases, a printer and network connections. However, this app uses serial ports and on Windows that requires JNI calls to native code - that's its problem. Portability requires rewriting the native code, which is typically C or C++, for each OS. The implementation might be slightly more flexible if the Java app used sockets to talk to a program that translated between a socket and a serial port, but this program would still need to be ported to new operating systems. I think socat could be used as the interface on UNIX-like systems. Martin
