I let it slide for too long but now, Barcode4J 2.0 is finally available. Since the last alpha release I’ve been able to fix a number of bugs in DataMatrix and PDF417. As a last-minute addition I’ve added support for…

The title says it all. I was quite surprised when I was approached last month. Reminds me to find time for the final 2.0 release… Here’s the Project of the Month page.

Barcode4J 2.0 alpha 1 is now released. In the release notes I’m asking for feedback on the new functionality. I hope I’ll get a lot of good feedback (positive or negative) so I can soon do a final 2.0 release.

Thunderhead has kindly sponsored an implementation of the DataMatrix barcode symbology (ISO/IEC 16022:2000(E)) for Barcode4J. This is now the second 2D symbology I was able to add to the codebase. Although it’s not a complete implementation of the spec, all…

Today, I’ve uploaded a new barcode type for Barcode4J: the Royal Mail Customer Barcode (CBC). It’s a kind of “four-state” barcode. There are others like that, for example the Australian variant which uses Reed Solomon error correction instead of a…

Today, I was curious about the start times of .NET binaries created from Java sources using IKVM. I took the opportunity to add IKVM compilation (kvmc) to Barcode4J‘s build. If I create a shell script that runs Barcode4J’s command-line (PDF417…