Java Glossary : CD burning

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CD burning: Creating a CD by writing to a one-time recordable disc, or an eraseable re-writeable disc. To do this from Java, you need software that makes the CD look like a hard disk, e.g. Roxio DirectCD. However, this creates CDs that can only be read with Roxio software. To create standard Joliet format CDs, you need to create a *.iso file which is an exact image of what will go on the CD. You can create that with CDr tools mkisofs. Basically you give it a list of files, and it creates a giant *.iso file image. You can then zip that and email it or feed it to CDr tools cdrecord or Roxio CD Creator to actually burn a CD. This is fairly tricky since you must compile the C source yourself, and deal with ATAPI and ASPI drivers for the burner, and use CygWin Unix-like scripting.
CDR ¤ CDRW

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