Hello All,
Sorry, a couple more questions regarding serial communications in Mina...
On Apr 1, 2014, at 9:45 AM, Archer, Garry wrote:
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Basically, I was going to develop a Mina-enabled test program listening for
requests on the RS-232 COM port using a "SerialAcceptor."
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It was easy to write a Mina-enabled program to send data through the COM port
using the SerialConnector class.
In review, here are the fundamental Mina serial classes:
Interfaces
SerialSession
SerialSessionConfig
Classes
SerialAddress
SerialAddressEditor
SerialConnector
Note there is a missing "SerialAcceptor" class. Mina stopped short of giving
us this.
Up until now, my Mina projects have been using solely TCP/IP connections. I am
currently tasked with providing serial communications between a machine that
only has a serial RS-232 port and a Web application that is hosted by a Mac
(deploying it on a PC is not an option!).
I have hardware ("terminal port server") that encapsulates the serial data from
the machine into TCP/IP packets to send over an Ethernet. The Mac is in a
remote location.
Somehow, I have to set up "virtual COM port" software on the Mac (pretty much
only available for Windows and Linux!).
The virtual COM port, typically set up on a PC, receives the TCP/IP packets and
extracts the serial data useful for a PC application.
If I had a SerialAcceptor my IoHandler can parse the message just like an
IoHandler for a NioSocketAcceptor in a regular TCP/IP application.
In the absence of a Mina SerialAcceptor does anyone know how to (a) set up a
virtual COM port on a Mac and (b) write a class that in essence does the job of
a SerialAcceptor?
Please bear in mind I have no experience programming applications using serial
communications (and who does, these days?!)
(I have been researching [a], but I wondered what the consensus here on the
Mina users group may have)
Regards,
Garry Archer
Systems Programmer
Department of Pathology
Yale School of Medicine
