Java usb support for windows

Question

Hello All
I do no know if this is the right place to post this topic, but does anyone know of an api that provides usb support for windows. I was looking a jusb, but the documentation says it only has support for linux. So far the best I have found is Mr Stahl's thesis which provides very limited support for windows. I was wondering if there was anything more stable (free or not)
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
Im trying to connect 2 computers using USB or Parallell port. On one computer I want to install a printer (regular windows printer) that prints through either USB or the Parallell port. On the other computer I want to listen on the Parallell port/USB port and receive the input and write it to a file.
Does anyone have a some sample code to do this? I've tried the following code (rxtx) but it cant find more than 2 ports (one parallel and one serial - no USBs even though I have 5 USB ports). Since I could only find the USB I tried to listen on the Parallell port. Problem is that I dont receive any data.
<---THE CODE--->
Enumeration port_list = gnu.io.CommPortIdentifier.getPortIdentifiers();
while (port_list.hasMoreElements ()) {
CommPortIdentifier port_id = (CommPortIdentifier)port_list.nextElement ();
          if(port_id.getPortType () == CommPortIdentifier.PORT_PARALLEL) {
               System.out.println("Found port "+port_id.getName()+ "id "+port_id);
               CommPort commPort = port_id.open("",2000);               
               InputStream is = commPort.getInputStream();
               byte buffert[]=new byte[1024];
          int len;
          System.out.println(">>>>>>>>len "+is.read(buffert));
          while((len=is.read(buffert))==-1)
               Thread.sleep(500);
               is = commPort.getInputStream();
               System.out.println(">>>>>>>>len "+len);
}