July 2012 Meeting

Monthly Meeting (register here)

When: July 10, 11:30-12:40
Where: theDiv
Speaker: Brian Sheldon
Topic: RXTX - Serial Communication using Java
a.k.a: Let’s get dirty with serial ports

Agenda

11:30 am - Welcome Announcements
11:40 am - Main Presentation
12:40 pm - Wrap Up

Presentation Information

When I tried to find a library that would allow me talk to a credit card reader via serial/usb under Windows, I didn’t find much that sounded like it would work. Rxtx works pretty well. It has one .jar and two .dll’s (one for serial and one for parallel)" I’ll talk about

the Rxtx api
finding serial ports
my credit card reader applet (aka hexadecimal hell)
some multi threading I’m doing in my applet
some event listening code to use instead of multi threading