CIP4 Tools for JDF and JMF

							JDF Toolkits for JDF and JMF
      JDF Library and API

• Read, write, work with JDF and JMF files

• Additional high-level routines
  – spawn / merge
  – Validate / Repair
  – Convert Versions


• MIME handling

• Networking
      JDF Library and API

• JDFLibC – C++
  – Windows: VisualC++ (VC10 main), VC7 – VC10
    32 bit / 64 bit available
  – Mac OS X: Xcode, CodeWarrior
  – Linux: makefiles (last update: 2002 (!))
• JDFLibJ – Java
  – compiled with Java 1.5 (Java 1.6 incoming)
  – used extensively by CIP4‘s JDF tools
• C# Translation beta available
        CIP4 JDF Editor

• Visual editor for JDF and JMF files
   – Views:
      • input/output
      • Process
      • localized capabilities
      • Comments
      • XML
   – Validates:
      • Capabilities (used for certification)
      • XML Schema

   – Sends JDF / JMF

• 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


• Both are integrated into the Editor
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“ based on Tomcat
  – Queue Handling
  – Device Simulation
  – Message + Subscription handling MIS
• Push and Pull workflows
  – Simulators can pull jobs
                                            proxy
   for load balancing
                               „need job“           „need job“


                                 worker         worker
       Bambi Properties

• JMF Queue
  – HTTP
  – Hot Folder
  – MIME
• JMF Signal Handling
• Device Simulation
  – Manual
  – Scripted Phases
• Device Proxy
• JDF Visualization
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

• Downloads
  http://www.cip4.org/open_source/index.html

• Public Wiki
  http://www.cip4.org/publicwiki

• Subversion
  http://cip4srv2.igd.fhg.de/svnroot/

• Bugtracker Jira
 http://www.cip4.org/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa