Java Marine API readme Version 0.5 pre-alpha (b20120508223056) Java Marine API is an NMEA 0183 library for accessing the data provided by electronic marine instruments such as GPS, sonar or autopilot. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS * Java 2 SE JRE/JDK 1.5 (1.6+ recommended) For serial port communication (choose one): * Java Communications API * RXTX library LICENSING Java Marine API is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Java Marine API is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with Java Marine API. If not, see . DISCLAIMER Java Marine API is not official NMEA software or related to National Marine Electronics Association . The interpretation of NMEA sentences for this library is based entirely on freely available resources in the Internet. Thus, it is NOT guaranteed that the library would conform and follow the standard accurately. SOURCE CODE The source code is freely available in project's SVN repository. See below URLs and project homepage at SourceForge.net for more info. SVN browsing and GNU tarball downloads: SVN checkout (no login required): svn co https://marineapi.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/marineapi marineapi CONTRIBUTORS * Kimmo Tuukkanen - project admin, lead developer REFERENCES The NMEA information for Java Marine API has been collected mainly from the following resources (availability checked on 2011-11-22): * NMEA Revealed by Eric S. Raymond * The NMEA FAQ by Peter Bennett * NMEA Sentence Information by Glenn Baddeley * NMEA Data by Dale DePriest * Wikipedia's NMEA article * The NMEA Information Sheet (issue 3, 25th Feb 2011) by Actisense Thanks to all above authors for making the information available. All disclaimers and warnings concerning the accuracy of information in the above documents apply equally to Java Marine API. When noticing or suspecting any errors, please contact project author(s).