Just had a look at the Sun Java site (love all those "; expected" Javascript
errors) and found the Java(tm) Communications API Users Guide
 at http://java.sun.com/products/javacomm/javadocs/API_users_guide.html .
Support for serial +parallel access across platforms.

It's not actually part of the JDK (at least not yet) it's the javax.comm
package. They call it a Java Standard Extension. Haven't done any Java in a
while so I haven't seen any of these before. Sun has implementations
available for Solaris (SPARC and x86) and Windows.

Tom.
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Nixon <Tony.Nixon@ENG.MONASH.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: MPLAB desires
> Thomas Brandon wrote:
>
> > I'd certainly be willing to devote programming time to a Java based
> > simulator.
>
> I am thinking of looking down this track myself for my own PIC tools. I
> wonder if there is any support for serial/parallel port interfaces
> though.