How to create a new dial connection in java?

Question

In my application user has to create a new dial up network connection in windows but i want to do this programmatically.Is there any API present in java that can help me for creating new network connection.

Answer 1

What do you need the network connection for? If you want to talk to another client of your application or a server written in Java, you can use the Socket class.

Answer 2

Sun used to have a phone/telecom API that might help, but I think it has not been developed on in years... since probably about the same time dial-up died. :-)

Your best option may be to look for a native API that does what you want and write a JNI wrapper around it. Alternately, if you are lucky some google searching might come up with someone who has already done that.

Good luck.

Answer 3

There is no way to create a Windows dial-up networking connection using pure Java. You might consider using Java to call built-in Windows command line programs though. See this as a starting point: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555935