Java APIs

Hi

i'm currently developing an application to send and receive SMS messages. Almost everything already works, I can send and receive SMS's via a database and so on.

In a few weeks I need to implement this in a company. The SMS modem will be connected to a server in the server room, the server will run an application that goes through the database and that will send the SMS messages when they aren't already sent. This has yet to be programmed but won't be such a problem.

The problem is when there's something wrong with the SMS modem (e.g. Delay, shut down, ...), the administrators need to configure and get the state of the modem via their terminal machine. So i need to connect to the COM port of the server via a terminal machine over the network.

This is totally new for me, I use the comm api to make a connection to the comm port (for now at a terminal machine where the program runs, this runs fine).

My question is if there's an API available which I can use to connect to the server over the network and use its COM port in my java application.

I hope this explains enough, Otherwise just ask if you need some more information.

Thanks already!