BE THE CODER > Barcodes > Barbecue Examples

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 generating Barcode EAN 13.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/barbecue/BarCodeEAN13Test.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.barbecue;



import java.io.File;



import net.sourceforge.barbecue.Barcode;

import net.sourceforge.barbecue.BarcodeFactory;

import net.sourceforge.barbecue.BarcodeImageHandler;



public class BarCodeEAN13Test {



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



    //Get EAN13 Barcode instance from the Factory.

    Barcode barcode = BarcodeFactory.createEAN13("400763000011");



    File imgFile = new File("testean13.png");



    //Write the bar code to PNG file

    BarcodeImageHandler.savePNG(barcode, imgFile);

  }

}