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SwedishFrog · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:35 am Post subject:

Well that kinda sucks for mac users. Are there any steps we could take to remedy this situation?

Cha0s · Site Admin Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 495

We'd have to write a new JSR082 implementation in C++ using Mac OS X Bluetooth library. I'm not a very good C++ programmer. Here's a link to the API if anyone's interested (it's laid out a bit weirdly. There's a tiny tiny "Next Page" button in the bottom right corner).

The JSR082 library API is here. We'd have to use JNI to bind the C++ methods to Java classes (I should be able to help with that. We just need to get the initial code written first).

EDIT: Actually, I should probably do the JNI stuff first. Thankfully, we only have to implement the javax.bluetooth part of the API. OBEX is not necessary. If someone will pledge to code the C++ part of the code, I'll do the JNI stuff first (it will be easier that way).
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ajmas · Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 10

Currently there is this open source project:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/javabluetooth/

If we can concentrate putting our efforts in one place, then I believe we all stand to gain.

Cha0s · Site Admin Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 495

Javabluetooth is dead and never really worked on the Mac in the first place. The best approach to creating JSR-082 for the Mac is starting from the ground-up. I will repeat what I said before: if someone is interested in coding the C++ portions of the library, I'll set up the JNI bindings.
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