From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Sep  2 07:00:37 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B21DC16A4CE
	for <freebsd-java@freebsd.org>; Thu,  2 Sep 2004 07:00:37 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from cocoa.syncrontech.com (cocoa-e0.syncrontech.com [62.71.8.66])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C858B43D1F
	for <freebsd-java@freebsd.org>; Thu,  2 Sep 2004 07:00:35 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from ari@suutari.iki.fi)
Received: from guinness.syncrontech.com (guinness.syncrontech.com
	[62.71.8.19])i8270SWw079558;	Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:00:29 +0300 (EEST)
	(envelope-from ari@suutari.iki.fi)
Received: from suutari.iki.fi (coffee.syncrontech.com [62.71.8.37])
	i8270R0V062848;	Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:00:27 +0300 (EEST)
	(envelope-from ari@suutari.iki.fi)
Message-ID: <4136C50B.2050906@suutari.iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:00:27 +0300
From: Ari Suutari <ari@suutari.iki.fi>
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040310)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Herve Quiroz <herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr>
References: <20040831120745.L66028@hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro>
	<20040901072358.GA45042@anyware12.anyware>
	<20040901142643.GA80717@arabica.esil.univ-mrs.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20040901142643.GA80717@arabica.esil.univ-mrs.fr>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.30 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang)
X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.24 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang)
cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Java Communication API for FreeBSD Input Stream Problem
X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD <freebsd-java.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java>,
	<mailto:freebsd-java-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-java@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-java-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java>,
	<mailto:freebsd-java-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 07:00:37 -0000

Hi,

Herve Quiroz wrote:
> Jean-Baptiste,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:24:01AM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote:
> 
>>You may want to give a try to RXTX, I have ported it to FreeBSD:
>>
>>http://caraldi.com/jbq/ports/rxtx/
>>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/65396
>>
>>Basically, RXTX is  an open-source implementation of Java  Comm API, and
>>AFAICT it  works right out  of the box!  See  contrib/SimpleRead.java in
>>the source distribution for a simple example that just works.
>>

I kind of missed this thread before. However, current rxtx
version has problems how it handles the JNI pointer inside it's
C code. This might or might not be a showstopper (might crash VM
when it hits). The rxtx author is aware of the problem, but I don't
know if it has been fixed.

I was hoping that I would no longer have to maintain
FreeBSD commapi and tried to use RXTX to talk to
dallas 1-wire devices (see www.ibutton.com). I was hit
by this bug and I decided to continue using FreeBSD commapi
since it looked that the fix for rxtx was not coming
soon.

	Ari S.