Reading and writing to the USB port with JAVA

[titan2020]

Hello,

I would like to use JAVA to write a program that will run on Windows or Linux. The program needs to communicate with an external device via USB port. I'm very new to JAVA. Is it possible to communicate with the USB port in JAVA? If so, do you have any suggested reading on the subject?

Thank you,

[Jan Axelson]

See the first questions here:

http://janaxelson.com/usbfaq.htm

Your USB device should use a driver that you can access via Java.

For example, if your device enumerates as a USB virtual serial port, seee:

http://rxtx.qbang.org/wiki/index.php/Writing_%22Hello_World%22_to_a_USB_to_serial_converter