Open and enquire com port

[Sparkhopper]

I'm asked to write a new program at work. I've not programmed in some time (1980s). I taught myself BASIC and Turbo Pascal and had no problem with simple applications that opened an RS232 com port and enquired data from devices upon that port and upon a Windows platform.

I'm in the beginning of learning Java and all of a sudden I'm asked to do it agian. I'm in no hurry to learn all of Java. I'm doing that in steps.

I'd like to discover an example of a Java application that will open a port and let me enquire the data from that port.

I want to do this just to see it work.

Can anyone help?


Thanks

[doWhile]

See the following tutorial
Lesson: All About Sockets (The Java™ Tutorials > Custom Networking)

[JosAH]

And if you mean serial ports (as in USB ports or RS/232 ports) google for 'RXTX'.
Also look here for proper downloads: http://guides.machinescience.org/mod...cuss.php?d=263

kind regards,

Jos