Re: reading from Serial Port (com port 1 to 10)

Dear Sir,

Thanks for your reply and the time you have put for this. I actually
enjoyed reading about your thoughts. What I want to tell about this is
that, the NAC device that you mentioned, is very nice, however it
requires several communication features and other software, without
which the scenario may fail to work for simple development work. But a
simple serial communication if associated with an extensive API like
the jPOS, may be able to solve development problems without the need
to consider the communication via the NAC devices or modems. Those can
be taken into consideration once the related parts which are developed
ahead of time are working efficiently.
If I may say what I am looking for. I am looking for the jPOS API to
take its input transaction from the serial port, perform processing on
it, and return it to the serial port. This should more or less be
possible and theoratically work also.

Thanks you in advance and regards,
tasbihmr

--- In jpos-dev@..., "Victor Salaman" <vsalaman@...> wrote:
>
> Hi:
> 
> Some of us have written jPos serial handlers for our specific needs
> and I don't know about everyone else's experience, but I finally gave
> up trying to use serial ports in servers and PCs, as there are good
> serial boards and bad serial boards and their reliability is not
> consistent. Besides, for reliability, dependability and other obvious
> reasons you want to decouple yourself from the PC.
> 
> * If you're serving incoming POS, use something like a Hypercom NAC
> device. You won't have to worry about modems, serial ports or any of
> the sort.
> * If you're connecting serial devices directly, use an external device
> server like Moxa device server series or Digi PortServer.
> 
> In both cases your software will just talk straight TCP/IP and the
> device does all the serial management. It also works good for
> redundancy since it's networked, if you have standy boxes, getting the
> serial devices to see your other cluster box(es) is a snap!
> 
> IMHO these days it'd actually be a crime to plug a serial device
> directly on the server(s), but I could be wrong. haha
> 
> -V
> 
> 
> On Feb 16, 2008 2:01 PM, tasbihmr <tasbihmr@...> wrote:
> >
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> > Dear All,
> >
> >  After thanking all those who are the contributors to this very
> >  informative and useful Java tool, I would like to ask that if there a
> >  sample code that can read and write the transaction to the serial
port,
> >  i.e, simply read from a given port and write back to the same
port. Has
> >  this tool been already developed ? I think it would be very useful
> >  because there are so many things out there (hardware as well), which
> >  are very able to communicate in serial.
> >
> >  Regards and thanks,
> >  tasbihmr
> >
> >
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