how to capture audio with C and Java

Hello,

I need to get audio from microphone and to use it as stream or evantually to store the sound in some file. This should work under both Linux and Windows. Is there some special library for C and Java ?

Thank you.

do you know how to use a data stream in java?

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read up on this api
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/sound/index.jsp
and this on
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/.../contents.html
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[edit2]
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/.../chapter5.html
java tutorial for capturing an audio stream.
from what i have read, you may have a compatibility issue with linux.
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good luck.
I hope this helps

thank you