Some modern IDEs are no longer aware of this structure and can't integrate the JavaComm 2.0 documentation into their help system. It should be noted that the old JavaComm 2.0 version comes with JavaDoc API documentation that is structured in the historic Java 1.0 JavaDoc layout. Often a library like JavaComm not only needs to be made known to the IDE as such, but also to each project that is supposed to use the library. IDEs typically have IDE-specific ways of how a new library (classes and documentation) is made known to the IDE. The installation needs to be repeated for every VM installation (JDKs and JREs) which should be used in conjunction with the development and execution of a serial application. Some IDEs also like to come with own, private JRE/JDK installations, as do some Java applications. Particularly Windows users are typically not aware that they have copies of the same VM installed in several locations (typically three to four). The information referring to the also ancient Java 1.2 (jdk1.2.html) is the right one. The most obvious of the two instructions is unfortunately the wrong one, intended for ancient Java 1.1 environments. Some versions of JavaComm 2.0 come with two installation instructions. Installationįollow the installation instructions that come with the download. However, the 2.0 Windows version (javacom 2.0) is still downloadable from here. The Windows version of JavaComm is no longer officially available, and Sun has - against their own product end-of-live policy - not made it available in the Java products archive.

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