Looking for the best location for a barcode library

[Jeremias Maerki <de...@greenmail.ch>]

Hi there

Before I open a SourceForge project I wanted to ask if there might be
interest in a barcode library/framework here at Apache. I started to
develop the library two years ago and it has already seen real-life use
in two projects with my last employer. I'm in the process of doing a
major refactoring cycle with the goal of making the whole package
opensource.

Features:
- written in Java
- Implementations of the following 1D-barcodes:
    - Interleaved 2 of 5
    - Code39
    - Codabar
    - Code128
    - EAN13 and UPC-A (only partially impl.)
- Output formats:
    - SVG (as W3C DOM and JDOM)
    - AWT (planned, first experiments)
    - Bitmaps (planned)
- Integration
    - Xalan extension (generating SVG)
    - Servlet (generating SVG)
    - FOP extension (in progress)
- Other planned features:
    - support for 2D-barcodes (ex. DataMatrix)

Currently, the project's a one-man show, so I think it doesn't qualify
as a candiate for an Apache (sub-)project. But who knows. That's why I
ask around first. Being a FOP committer I could also add it to FOP but I
think the project isn't exclusively useful in that context.

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

Jeremias Maerki


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Re: Looking for the best location for a barcode library

[Jeremias Maerki <de...@greenmail.ch>]

On 21.02.2003 00:17:51 J.Pietschmann wrote:
> Victor Mote wrote:
> > I agree. There are some other parts of FOP that would seem to be similar --
> > fonts and hyphenation come to mind.
> 
> I was always under the impression there is some overlap
> with Batik, programs producing charts or organigrams
> (drawing boxes around text) and the like. Now, who's
> going to coordinate this stuff?

Well, for Apache-local stuff this is the Apache community. Maybe small
packages that are of use in more than one place one of the many Commons
projects may be the right place. We could at least try to compile a list
of those known to us and put it on the FOP site.

For packages that exist outside of Apache we can only have some links to
them. Don't know how this can be coordinated at all.

At least, having pointers to such projects on the FOP website helps
these projects to gain publicity.

Jeremias Maerki


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Re: Looking for the best location for a barcode library

["J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>]

Victor Mote wrote:
> I agree. There are some other parts of FOP that would seem to be similar --
> fonts and hyphenation come to mind.

I was always under the impression there is some overlap
with Batik, programs producing charts or organigrams
(drawing boxes around text) and the like. Now, who's
going to coordinate this stuff?

J.Pietschmann


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RE: Looking for the best location for a barcode library

[Victor Mote <vi...@outfitr.com>]

Jeremias Maerki wrote:

> Currently, the project's a one-man show, so I think it doesn't qualify
> as a candiate for an Apache (sub-)project. But who knows. That's why I
> ask around first. Being a FOP committer I could also add it to FOP but I
> think the project isn't exclusively useful in that context.

I agree. There are some other parts of FOP that would seem to be similar --
fonts and hyphenation come to mind.

Victor Mote


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