I am trying to implement JSR 257 ("Contactless Communication API") API and required to use C programming language. I am wondering if anyone knows of similar C API available so one can use as a basis. What would be a best approach to do this? I am thinking of going ahead and starting to design/implement one but do not want to re-invent if something similar exists.
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JSR 257 seems to be about various forms of "short range" communication, wireless. The examples of technologies given are RFID, near field communication, and barcodes.
- This page lists various open source RFID implementations.
- Near field communication is a rather new field, I was not able to find any existing APIs doing a quick search. My suggestion is to look at hardware vendors that make ICs supporting it, and searching from there. One such vendor seems to be NXP.
- Zebra Crossing is a Java library for interpreting barcodes. It's not C as you requested, but it might be of interest anyway. There's talk of (so far only partial) C++ ports on the homepage, those might be of interest too.
unwind
2009-04-22 08:32:31
thanks unwind for the information. I am actually working on NFC and we have already demonstrated it's functionality on a phone. I now want to provided applications a way to use this functionality hence the need for an API that is similar to already existing APIs.
MeThinks
2009-04-22 08:54:11