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Originally Posted by BriOnH I was thinking an active X too. I tried building a Java applet as my first course of action but couldn't find a class or control to access the com port of a computer that way. |
If you ever changed your mind, it's available as an extension library that can be downloaded from here:
http://java.sun.com/products/javacomm/
They aren't including it with the standard SDK although I saw some brief notes mentioning it in the new 1.6.0 release, I think (or maybe I was dreaming). The reason is because the hardware implementations are so much different from each platform, that they didn't want to make it a required part of the standard SDK. However, they have working versions for all the popular platforms.
