Interfacing with attached peripherals
I'm new to the boards, so if I posted this in the wrong place please forgive me.
I am writing a program to speed up a long process at work. Essentially it takes an Excel sheet with data in it and outputs text files with the information from the rows of the Excel file. This with a GUI and a JFileChooser works fantastic.
The output of the txt files are commands that are sent over a terminal program. So while I dont have to type anything manually anymore, I still have to pull up each text file to send to the device.
I want to interface the output so that it goes straight to the device. Currently it is going from a USB to Serial cable into a console cable. Would javax.comm help with this? I am not sure if the fact that it is not a true serial port would get in the way. If anyone has any insite on this I would be grateful. It doesnt seem like it is a very popular API so there isn't much out there. I have searched google the past 2 days and decided to finally ask through forums.
Sorry for the long post, but I notice there are usually more requests from other users for more information so I tried to include all pertianat info. Thanks again.
