Making barcode scanner work

Hello,
I am stuck here with the barcode scanner "Symbol LS2208" via USB and have to use it in a Java app. I am using jdk 1.5 and downloaded the javax.comm API. Now i have some problems with which I hope one of you can help me. Is there a way to read from the scanner via USB, because as far as I can see the javax.comm API supports only serial ports and does the whole thing work with JDK 1.5, as javax.comm seems to have been written for JDK 1.2? I really would appreciate if one could get me started at least with some helpful documentation or examples...actually anything :-)

I don't know about reading the USB input directly, and I don't know about your particular scanner.
However, I have a Symbol LS4000 that I use in keyboard emulation mode. Is that an option for you? Or does it have to be the raw USB input?
If you can use keyboard emulation mode, you'll probably have to configure the scanner to do that. For the one I have, the scanner gets configured by scanning various barcodes in the manual.
So check with your prof or get the docs for the scanner. You'll need that as well as whatever Java knowledge is relevant for the approach you choose.

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Can anyone tell why its not working on tablet with solution? Thanks in advance

Hi Asha - we have sample code for barcode scanning here:
https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Barcode-scanner-sample-f39aa411
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Hi everybody, :-)
I have a problem with KeyEvents coming from a barcode scanner. The issue seems to have creeped in somewhere between JSE 6u3 and 6u10, as in the former it works as expected and in the latter it does not. The problem persists still, we also tested it with 6u22 and 6u23 (all tests were performed on the same Windows XP machine). The actual test client is very simple, the application is only a JFrame containing a JTextField and a JTextArea.
The barcode scanner we use connects via USB and has no special driver. The scanner already decodes the barcode that was scanned and "enters" characters in the focussed text field of the test application by emulating the Alt+NumPad behaviour (the character '5' being produced by the equivalent of holding Alt and entering "0053" on the NumPad).
Now, what appears when the application is run in JSE 6u03 is the expected result:
5@WM010$|
5@WM010$|
5@WM010$|
5@WM010$|
Here's the result for the same barcode when the application is run in JSE 6u10 (results for 6u23 are similar):
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é@WM010Ü\
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The character values are wrong already when the KeyEvent for each is being created and posted to the EventQueue. But on the other hand, the problem is obviously tied to the JSE used, so it has to occur somewhere after Java receives the input and before a KeyEvent is generated. Since the errors are very random, we are guessing that it might be a timing problem.
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Hi. I think I will go for the DB. Now the question is: what can I use that is free?Google MySQL
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And also I am not sure what you mean by "hardcode a Map containing a few barcodes". Could you elaborate on that one for me please?Instead of fetching the name from a database or file you retrieve it from a Map which you have manually filled in your code:
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m.put("5000158064123", "Condoms");
System.out.println(m.get("5000158064055"));>
Thank you.

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