Credit card reader API

Is there any API available by which i can access a Magnetic Card Reader attached my PC thro USB?Thanx
[115 byte] By [free-side-disha] at [2007-11-26 12:41:25]
# 1
jUSB?
CeciNEstPasUnProgrammeura at 2007-7-7 16:14:25 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...
# 2
If USB is a problem with JAVA, then i will go for COM Ports.
free-side-disha at 2007-7-7 16:14:25 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...
# 3
> If USB is a problem with JAVA, then i will go for COM> Ports.jUSB? RXTX.org?
CeciNEstPasUnProgrammeura at 2007-7-7 16:14:25 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...
# 4

talk to the vendor of the mag stripe reader, for a start. additionally, many of them ship with a driver which redirects the mag stripe data to stdin. this will be a native driver, so moving your code from platform to platform will be trickier, but for an app. that's reading credit cards, this isn't often an issue anyway. not many people decide to suddenly port their PoS app to another OS halfway through a project! (but I've seen it done)

georgemca at 2007-7-7 16:14:25 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...