[aprssig] Java Class

[Matti Aarnio]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 08:56:23PM -0400, William McKeehan wrote:
> Has anyone written an open source Java package that will parse APRS
> aprs similar to the Ham::APRS::FAP parser for perl?

Java ?  Not that I know of.
What is your application need?


These are APRS packet parsers in open source that I am aware of:

perl:
   - Ham::APRS::FAP          by  oh2kku and oh7lzb

ANSI-C:
   - embedded in digi_ned    by  pe1dnn  (distance.c)
   - embedded in aprx        by  oh7lzb and modified by oh2mqk
   - libfap                  by  oh2gve

C++:
   - embedded in aprsd   (aprsString.cpp)

I suspect some exist in Ruby and Python as well.


Most complete of these are the original FAP, the libfap and perhaps
the one embedded in aprx,  others I have not analyzed deeply enough
to know for sure.

Porting FAP to Java is possible, and I have some ideas of how to
make it in Proper Java Way, but never had a need for it myself.
Sometimes writing plain ANSI-C is pain, and I have toyed with the
idea, but Java runtime alone typically takes 10+ MB, which is a bit
too much in my thinking..

On a 32-bit embedded Linux PC running full digi+igate:

 USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
 root     19921  0.0  0.7   2444   920 ?        Ss   Oct28   0:01 /usr/sbin/aprx


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73 de Matti, OH2MQK