BE THE CODER > Barcodes > Barbecue Examples > Barcode As Swing Component

Barbecue is a free and open source Java library for Barcode generation. This requires the library barbecue-1.5-beta1.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows rendering CODE 128B Barcode as Swing component.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/barbecue/BarCodeAsSwingComponentTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.barbecue;



import javax.swing.JFrame;



import net.sourceforge.barbecue.Barcode;

import net.sourceforge.barbecue.BarcodeFactory;



public class BarCodeAsSwingComponentTest {



  public static void main (String [] args) throws Exception {



    //Get 128B Barcode instance from the Factory

    Barcode barcode = BarcodeFactory.createCode128B("be the coder");



    JFrame frame = new JFrame("My Application");

      frame.getContentPane().add(barcode);

      frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

      

      frame.pack();

      frame.setLocation(240, 90);

      frame.setVisible(true);

  }

}