Easiest way to read a String from a RS-232 port?
<p>I have a custom made board which reads different metrics from various sensors (e.g. temperature in Celcius, pressure in bars) and sends them by a RS-232 port as a string with a "channel" (a mnemonic of the sensor) and the actual reading e.g. "a14.23" or "b33.0".</p>

<p>I need to read and parse that info in java and send it to a JMS queue for further processing in another app. The requirement is that it MUST work on Windows XP/7.</p>

<p>I was reading that Oracle Java Communications API is implemented just for Linux/Solaris Systems so this discards it for this project. </p>

<p>Any suggestions?</p>
