Brian Antonishek (antonis@nist.gov)                10/06/2000


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*** Running the Lego Server 
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To get things working you need to first get the LegoServer process
running on the machine which has the IR tower attached to its serial
port.

The command to run the server with java:

    Usage: java LegoServer [<portnum>] default: 5678)

PCs and Suns
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On Windows and Solaris, LegoServer uses the Java COMM API 2.0 
extension for serial port communications.  You just need to be sure
that you have the Java COMM API extension installed correctly.  
See:   http://java.sun.com/products/javacomm/index.html


This is the quickest way to make sure your server is running
correctly.  


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*** Proxy Server
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If you try and run a Java applet client by connecting to the
lego server make sure that you get the controlling java applet 
from a web server that is running on the same machine as the 
lego server.  This is necessary because of the Java security 
feature that applets can only open sockets to the host from which
they came.

But, it is pretty simple setting up a proxy server application
that can get around this situation.  See the nice proxy server
example from the javaExamplesInANutshell book at:

   http://www.davidflanagan.com/javaexamples



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Have fun!  Let me know if you have any suggestions or get it 
running on any other platforms.  Thanks!

-Brian (antonis@nist.gov)

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