Bug 175336 - [terminal-serial] The Serial Terminal should run RXTX without patching the JVM
Summary: [terminal-serial] The Serial Terminal should run RXTX without patching the JVM
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Target Management
Classification: Tools
Component: Terminal (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 2.0.1   Edit
Assignee: Martin Oberhuber CLA
QA Contact: Martin Oberhuber CLA
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Blocks: 220306
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Reported: 2007-02-23 13:02 EST by Martin Oberhuber CLA
Modified: 2012-02-27 12:54 EST (History)
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Description Martin Oberhuber CLA 2007-02-23 13:02:53 EST 
Currently, the RXTX library is being used in order to provide access to the serial port for the serial terminal. Instructions say that this library needs to be installed into the JVM. This is very uncomfortable. There should be a way to run the serial terminal without patching the JVM.

See also
http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.dsdp.tm/msg00107.html
Comment 1 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2007-02-23 13:04:19 EST 
We are currently working with the RXTX maintainers to create Eclipse Bundles and an Eclipse Update site for RXTX. Due to licensing issues, this will be served from rxtx.org and not eclipse.org, but it will allow to run rxtx from inside Eclipse so you don't need to patch your VM any more.

TM will declare a discovery site for RXTX in it's feature, so it should be pretty painless to get it installed through the Update Manager.

See http://mailman.qbang.org/pipermail/rxtx/Week-of-Mon-20070129/848211.html
Comment 2 Oyvind Harboe CLA 2007-03-21 10:09:22 EDT 
I was going to add an enhancement request to ease installation, but I guess once this is fixed then installation will be painless including getting the native library in place?
Comment 3 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2007-03-21 10:11:13 EDT 
Yes. You will be getting rxtx via update manager right from rxtx.org.
Comment 4 Paul McConkey CLA 2007-07-11 12:49:04 EDT 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Yes. You will be getting rxtx via update manager right from rxtx.org.

Is there any progress on this? I notice that there is now a licence page for rxtx (http://mailman.qbang.org/pipermail/rxtx/2007-April/1337804.html).
Comment 5 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2007-10-16 14:49:18 EDT 
An Eclipse-specific version of RXTX which does not need lockfiles is now available via Update Manager on this update site:
   http://rxtx.qbang.org/eclipse/
or for download, as an SDK or runtime:
   http://rxtx.qbang.org/eclipse/downloads/

Just install this into Eclipse and it'll work.