Hi Ver
I had looked into this myself as I wanted my FTDI 232 cable to always appear as /dev/boarduino.
....In the end I decided not to complicate my installation and went back to using precompiled RXTX files from the rxtx.org site.
On reading the INSTALL file you could try using
java -Dgnu.io.rxtx.SerialPorts=/dev/tts/USB com.foo.MyAppwhere com.foo.MyApp is the arduino java app.
DISCLAIMER: I haven't tried this so have no idea if it will work for you
This works fine for a single board, thanks for the tip.
I wish I could set a search-prefix for the rxtx-lib that way.
Udev creates a symlink Arduino.[SerialNumber] for all my boards.
If I could tell rxtx : "search for all devices starting with 'Arduino.' "
that would be great...
Some more background information is here
Eberhard