JDF Toolkits for JDF and JMF Niels Böger. JDF Library and API Read, write, work with JDF and JMF files Additional high-level routines –spawn / merge MIME.

JDF Toolkits for JDF and JMF

Niels Böger

JDF Library and API

• Read, write, work with JDF and JMF files

• Additional high-level routines

– spawn / merge

• MIME handling

• Networking

JDF Library and API

• JDFLibC – C++

– Windows: VisualC++ 8 (main), VC6 / VC7.1

– Mac OS X: Xcode 2.4.1, CodeWarrior

– Linux: makefiles (last update: 2002)

• JDFLibJ – Java

– compiled with Java 1.4 (Java 1.5 incoming)

– used extensively by CIP4‘s JDF tools

CIP4 JDF Editor

• Visual editor for JDF and JMF files– Views: input/output, process, localized capabilities, comments

– Validates:

• Capabilities

• XML Schema

– Sends JDF

• Binaries for Mac and Windows

CIP4 JDF Editor

CIP4 JDF Utilities

• CheckJDF

– Check validity of JDF files (online and on the

command line)

• FixJDF

– Update a JDF file to another version

CIP4 JDF Utilities

Elk

• “application framework providing services needed by a JDF device”– Send and receive JMF

– Send and receive JDF

– Job queue

– Execute JDF nodes

– …

• Reference implementation: elk-press

Alces

• Tool for testing JDF software

• JDF Controller / Manager

Bambi

• „simple Elk“

• Pull workflows

MIS

proxy

worker worker

„need job“„need job“

Bambi

Legal

• Code is open source

• Free for non-commercial use

• Free for in-house use

• Usage in commercial products that are for sale only for Full and Partner members

Links

• Downloadshttp://www.cip4.org/open_source/index.html

• Public Wikihttp://www.cip4.org/publicwiki

• Subversionhttp://cip4srv2.igd.fhg.de/svnroot/

• Bugtracker Jira

http://www.cip4.org/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa