About 6 months ago I wanted to pull some data from a bluetooth adapter into a little java app. I did the usual google searching and found (among others) jBluez. Being free and working on Linux, this seemed like the right solution for me.
But there are problems with jBluez. It has a few bugs and didn’t give return the inquiry output I was looking for. I pulled up the C source to bluez, the Linux Bluetooth library that jBluez is based on, and extended the C/JNI code a little bit to give me the inquiry data I needed. I fixed a few bugs that had been mentioned on the sourceforge newsgroups for the project and a few I found myself.
Now, the killer here is that I’m no longer planning on running my little app under Linux. I can’t get a hold of the original developers of jBluez. The email address bounces and the website for that domain just forwards to another site. I don’t really have a way of pushing my changes back to the community, so I’ll just post them here and maybe drop a link in the sourceforge forums.