JBarcodeBean

Introduction

Welcome to the homepage of the JBarcodeBean project.

The bean can be used either as a visible client-side component that renders itself graphically, or as a server-side component that can encode a GIF image into an OutputStream. A Servlet could use this feature, for example, to serve barcodes to a web browser. JBarcodeBean is written entirely in pure Java, so it should work under any operating system that supports Java (version 1.2.2 or later).

The following popular barcode formats are currently supported by JBarcodeBean:

• Code 11
• Code 128
• Interleaved Code 25
• Code 39
• Extended Code 39
• Extended Code 92
• Code 93
• Extended Code 93
• Codabar
• MSI
• EAN-13
• EAN-8

JBarcodeBean is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 3.0. See the GNU web site for more details.

Download

JBarcodeBean is hosted at SourceForge. You can download the latest version from SourceForge here.

Code Examples

Click here to see a couple of examples which illustrate how you can integrate JBarcodeBean into your own application.

Demo Application

JBarcodeBean is bundled with a demo application that allows you to experiment with the bean's properties, and test the output (in GIF format or hardcopy). Click here to see a screenshot of the demo.

To run the demo, make sure that Demo.jar and JBarcodeBean.jar are present in the same directory, and then invoke Demo.jar as an executable jar file as follows:

java -jar Demo.jar

Source Code

The Source code is hosted at SourceForge and may be downloaded via anonymous Subversion access. You can also browse it on-line. See the project SVN page for more details.

Documentation

The JavaDoc documentation for the JBarcodeBean class and all supporting classes and interfaces (which is included in the download package) is available on-line here.