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Over the last couple of days I have been looking at some more Java. I’ve just found out about an excellent tutorial on GPS programming in Java at provided free of charge by IBM.

Only that the run the Java serial communications API you must have these files installed in the JDK folder:

comm.jar
win32comm.dll
javax.com.properties

But of course it isnt that simple. I’ve had a lot of problems getting javax.comm to work. I kept getting various errors involving “com.sun.comm.Win32Driver”. After following various peices of advice from forums, modifying the classpath etc etc I got hold of a copy of the javax.comm libraries from 1998 and it worked straight away. Pitty its now 5pm.
Save yourself the hassle of finding them and download them here.  Be sure to check out the readme.html file for full instructions.

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