Internal Modem Com port!

hi,
I was designing an application in which i should check if the modem is active or NO. I had a simple idea which was to try to open the modem's COM port and if I get an "port in use" exception means the modem is active. I used the comm API but I found out that my modem's COM was not listed in the port ID and I suppose it is because the modem is Internal and doesn't use a Physical COM port like the serial port but a virtual one.
Is there a way in which I could access this virtual com port??
Thank YOU
adel

Try the API for port.info() and Line
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/

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