Just a quick note on this case as an FYI:
1) Project Boomer (PSARC 2008/318) has no plans to deliver support for
*hardware* MIDI devices. Indeed, in many ways, such devices have gone
out of fashion. We don't expect any other project will be delivering
such support either.
2) Depending on when this project integrates, we'd encourage the project
team to build the software to use the OSS API. Boomer (which exports
the OSS API) is currently planned for integration in b115.
If there are any questions about this, or if the project team would like
to get access to pre-release builds of the Boomer software, please let
us know. A reply back to either me, or audio-oss-ext at sun.com will do
the job.
-- Garrett