First, I can't find a place to ask about Java Communication API, then I decided to ask here.
I want to implement a Serial Port Reader, but the API needs awin32com.dll library to work in Window environment, but this file is not provided in the last version of this API.
Where can I get the correct library?
You aren't alone. Here's [url=http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=682630&start=0&tstart=0]a discussion of the issue.[/url] An alternative to this is to write a serial comms to tcp/ip converter in one of the native Microsoft languages. Then you can use normal sockets to talk to it. I used that approach in the past when I needed OLE support from Java and it worked very well.
MS provides a serial comms ActiveX component in VB 6, as well as a socket ActiveX component. So you could use that as glue and actually write very little code.
It doesn't seem that .Net has similar components, they seem to have stopped supporting these ports as well. You can access the old MScomm activeX from .net using the interoperability features.
You can download free express versions of C# and VB.net from [url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx]Visual Studio Express[/url]. Here's [url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/NETSerialComm/]an article about writing serial comms code in C#[/url].
