Cross-platform Comms

[Dave Brown]

Hi,

Can any recommend a cross platform free serial comms api targetting windows/mac/linux ?

Thanks,

[James Ellis]

Dave,

I am not even really sure what that means. But if you are looking for a good cross-platform communication protocol have you looked at SOAP (aka, using web services). Both the Microsoft and Java platforms support web services and they are not that hard to use.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Originally posted by Dave Brown:
Hi,

Can any recommend a cross platform free serial comms api targetting windows/mac/linux ?

Thanks,

The Java Communications API is the "official" API, but unfortunately the reference implementations are reputedly poor, and Sun doesn't ship a Mac or Linux version. But these guys support multiple platforms with a far nicer implementation.