Does Suns new HotSpot work with the iB-IDE?
If you are using the iB-IDE native drivers for communication to the iButton (which is the default), HotSpot will not work. From the HotSpot FAQ: “Native methods used with the Java HotSpot Performance Engine must conform to the Java Native Interface (JNI) specification. The Java HotSpot Performance Engine does not and will not support native method conventions older than the JNI specification.” The iB-IDE native drivers conform to the older stubs interface and will therefore not work with HotSpot. If you have HotSpot installed in your system, you need to either uninstall it, or edit the iB-IDE_1_01.bat (or .sh) file and add the “-classic” switch to the call to java. (Note: Windows users must also do the same update to the iB-IDE_1_01.ini file.) However, you can choose instead to use javax.comm as your primary communication layer. To do so, edit the [jdk1.2]\jre\lib\opencard.properties file. This file should have all of the ports installed in your system enumerated on separate lines. All
