Java and USB (articol, cei ce nu cunosc limba engleza trec pealaturi)

Although the Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an integral part of many computers, Java does not officially support USB. Getting your Java programs to interact with arbitrary USB devices thus requires either a third-party Java/USB API or your own Java/USB API. This article introduces two third-party APIs and my own API, which provides a partial USB interaction.Before it introduces the APIs, this article explores some USB fundamentals. The article next introduces JSR-80 (an API that attempts to bring official USB support to Java) and jUSB (a rival API). Moving on, the article presents my own bus-enumeration API, which only works in a Windows context. The article closes by pondering whether or not Java should officially support the USB.I developed and tested this article's code with Sun's J2SE 5.0 SDK and Borland C++ 5.5.1. Windows 98 SE and Windows ME were the underlying OSes.http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/07/06/java-and-usb.html