What's new in this release
In this release, aside from bug fixes and upgrades, we included more sample
code and documentations.
New sample code:
- Two simple programs SimpleRead.java and SimpleWrite.java
are included to show how read and write actions should be done with
serial ports.
- A more sophisticated program SerialDemo is
included in this release to demonstrate how to write a serial
program with GUI using Java(tm) Communications API. It also
shows how to save/load port configurations.
- Test program BlackBox is distributed with source code in
this release.
- One sample driver NullDriver is included in the
samples/NullDriver directory. This is useful for folks
attempting to write a new driver for their own hardware.
New documentations:
- The loadable driver mechanism is described in CommDriver.
Upgrades:
- We now search in more places for the property file
javax.comm.properties. First we search in <JDK>/lib, if we
don't find it, we search in the directory where comm.jar is
located. This allows users to place comm.jar and the property
files in directories other than <JDK>/lib, in case they don't
have permission to write there.
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Last modified: Mon Jun 8 20:04:59 PDT 1998