Parallel Port control in java

[mr_anderson]

HI
I am developing a java application that reads and writes data to the parallel port of a PC, I searched google and I found that too many website are saying that javax.comm has problems in many issues (i.e. not reliable) and I found a nother package developed by rxtx.org in which it was recommended by too many websites, my question now is that:
can you recommend me a package to use in order to control the parallel port taking into consideration I will use either windows server 2003 on the target PC or linux (due to the fact that not all the packages support all the operating systems).

[Eranga]

May be not what you really expecting, but in my experience Java is not a suitable way to communicate with ports in advance. Better to use a language like C/C++, which you have more control over the others.

And also there are many ways to connect those C/C++ modules into Java, using JNI and stuff.

I'm not discouraging you, but it's the best way I found in my experience.

[Tolls]

Oh I don't know. I've had no problem doing serial port work with scanners, and card readers. Not done parallel, though, so that may be different.

[mr_anderson]

Thank you guys, can you please recommend a good websites for such stuff.
Regards.
Anderson.

[Eranga]

Oh I don't know. I've had no problem doing serial port work with scanners, and card readers. Not done parallel, though, so that may be different.

Could be, depend on the design. Comparing those two has a bit difference.

[Eranga]

Thank you guys, can you please recommend a good websites for such stuff.
Regards.
Anderson.

I'm not exactly remember any tutorials, I couldn't found any in my bookmarks. But I remember there is a third party library something like parport. Search on the web, you may find lots of details about that. As far as I remember there is no well explained documentation, but the once they provide is more than enough.

Relevant to C/C++ you can find a lot.

[mr_anderson]

Thank you again.
I found the parport and it seems really good

[Eranga]

Yeah, just go through it. There could be some examples as well.

If I found any links on my resources I'll post them all here.