USB detection in JAVA

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What can be the classes and methods for detecting USB ports on my machine, I am designing an application where I need to block a USB port using only mass storage devices. Apart from a storage device all devices should function properly.

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Posted 30-Jan-12 18:53pm

Syed Mohammed Khawar

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Lakamraju Raghuram · Answer 1 · 2012-01-30T19:00:00

Solution 1

If you Googled you will get many. Any way you can look here

1. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-usb/index.html[^]

2. http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/07/06/java-and-usb.html[^]

Posted 30-Jan-12 19:00pm

Lakamraju Raghuram

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Syed Mohammed Khawar 31-Jan-12 5:02am

thanks a ton raghuram, i did googled it but when i am a port all of my devices on that USB port stop working whereas my task is to block only mass storage devices.

TorstenH. · Answer 2 · 2012-01-30T20:08:00

Solution 2

jUSB[^]

It's a complete API for using USB.

Posted 30-Jan-12 20:08pm

TorstenH.