Serial Port code problem

[Z.K.]

Well, I finally managed to get the RXTX package to work, at least in Windows. I thought I was having trouble with RXTX as I could not get my code to work, but I decided to step back and use a loopback connector and some code I found for loopback on the Internet. Everything worked fine so it is my code that is screwy. I was wondering if someone here on this forum could look at my code and see what I am doing wrong. I am trying to write a command, in this case a "V" to a device and then I am trying to capture what is returned, but nothing comes back and the program terminates.

I am really new to Java so I am fairly sure I am doing something incorrectly, but I have not been able to determine what so far.

:confused:

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 * @(#)SimpleRead.java	1.12 98/06/25 SMI
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import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import gnu.io.*;

/**
 * Class declaration
 *
 *
 * @author
 * @version 1.8, 08/03/00
 */
@SuppressWarnings("restriction")
public class SerialRead implements Runnable, SerialPortEventListener 
{
    static CommPortIdentifier portId;
    static String	      messageString = "V";
    static OutputStream       outputStream;
    static boolean	      outputBufferEmptyFlag = false;
    
    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
	static Enumeration	      portList;
    InputStream		      inputStream;
    SerialPort		      serialPort;
    Thread		      readThread;

    /**
     * Method declaration
     *
     *
     * @param args
     *
     * @see
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
	public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
	    boolean		      portFound = false;
	    String		      defaultPort = "COM9";
	
	 	if (args.length > 0) 
	 	{
		    defaultPort = args[0];
		} 
	   
		portList = CommPortIdentifier.getPortIdentifiers();
	
		while (portList.hasMoreElements()) 
		{
		    portId = (CommPortIdentifier) portList.nextElement();
		    if (portId.getPortType() == CommPortIdentifier.PORT_SERIAL) 
		    {
				if (portId.getName().equals(defaultPort)) 
				{
				    System.out.println("Found port: "+defaultPort);
				    portFound = true;
				    SerialRead reader = new SerialRead();
				} 
		    } 
		} 
		
		if (!portFound) 
		{
		    System.out.println("port " + defaultPort + " not found.");
		} 
 	
    } 

    /**
     * Constructor declaration
     *
     *
     * @see
     */
    public SerialRead() 
    {
		try 
		{
		    serialPort = (SerialPort) portId.open("SimpleReadApp", 2000);
		} 
		catch (PortInUseException e) 
		{}
	
		try 
		{
			outputStream = serialPort.getOutputStream();
		    inputStream = serialPort.getInputStream();
		} 
		catch (IOException e) 
		{}
	
		try 
		{
		    serialPort.addEventListener(this);
		} 
		catch (TooManyListenersException e) 
		{}
	
		serialPort.notifyOnDataAvailable(true);
	
		try 
		{
		    serialPort.setSerialPortParams(9600, SerialPort.DATABITS_8, 
						   SerialPort.STOPBITS_1, 
						   SerialPort.PARITY_NONE);
		} 
		catch (UnsupportedCommOperationException e) 
		{}
		
		try 
	    {
	    	serialPort.notifyOnOutputEmpty(true);
	    } 
	    catch (Exception e) 
	    {
			System.out.println("Error setting event notification");
			System.out.println(e.toString());
			System.exit(-1);
	    }
	    
	    
	    System.out.println("Writing \""+messageString+"\" to " +serialPort.getName().toString());

	    try 
	    {
	    	outputStream.write(messageString.getBytes());
	    	outputStream.flush();
	    } 
	    catch (IOException e) 
	    {}

	    try 
	    {
	       Thread.sleep(2000);  // Be sure data is xferred before closing
	    } 
	    catch (Exception e) 
	    {}
	    
	
		readThread = new Thread(this);
	
		readThread.start();
	    
		
		serialPort.close();
	    System.exit(1);
    }

    /**
     * Method declaration
     *
     *
     * @see
     */
    public void run() 
    {
		try 
		{
		    Thread.sleep(20000);
		} 
		catch (InterruptedException e) 
		{}
    } 

    /**
     * Method declaration
     *
     *
     * @param event
     *
     * @see
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
	public void serialEvent(SerialPortEvent event) 
    {
		switch (event.getEventType()) 
		{
	
			case SerialPortEvent.BI:
		
			case SerialPortEvent.OE:
		
			case SerialPortEvent.FE:
		
			case SerialPortEvent.PE:
		
			case SerialPortEvent.CD:
		
			case SerialPortEvent.CTS:
		
			case SerialPortEvent.DSR:
		
			case SerialPortEvent.RI:
		
			case SerialPortEvent.OUTPUT_BUFFER_EMPTY:
			    break;
		
			case SerialPortEvent.DATA_AVAILABLE:
			    byte[] readBuffer = new byte[20];
		
			    try 
			    {
					while (inputStream.available() > 0) 
					{
					    int numBytes = inputStream.read(readBuffer);
					} 
			
					System.out.print(new String(readBuffer));
			    } 
			    catch (IOException e) 
			    {}
		
			    break;
		}
    } 

}