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
