This project provides a LPD-Server-Framework written in pure Java. It is not a stand alone LPD-Server. It allows you to add LPD-Server capabilities to your own applications.
lpdbox uses the Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) for logging. That' all.
Because lpdbox is available at jcenter it is very easy to use lpdbox in your projects. At first, add lpdbox to your build file. If you use Maven, add the following to your build file:
<dependency>
<groupId>de.textmode.lpdbox</groupId>
<artifactId>lpdbox</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>If you use Gradle, add this:
dependencies {
compile 'de.textmode.lpdbox:lpdbox:1.1'
}
In your Java code you need to create a DaemonCommandHandlerFactory that is able to create DaemonCommandHandler objects.
Then use the LinePrinterDaemonBuilder to build a LinePrinterDaemon. Invoke run on the built LinePrinterDaemon and
you are done. To stop the LinePrinterDaemon just invoke stop or stop(final long timeoutInMillis). That's all
The LinePrinterDaemon implements the Runnable interface so you can easily start the daemon within a thread.
Note that the LinePrinterDaemon is multi-threaded. Each client connection is handled by a thread. You can limit the
maximum number of threads using the method LinePrinterDaemonBuilder.maxThreads(final int maxThreads).
If you want to contribute to lpdbox, you're welcome. But please make sure that your changes keep the quality of lpdbox at least at it's current level. So please make sure that your contributions comply with the lpdbox coding conventions (formatting etc.) and that your contributions are validated by JUnit tests.
It is easy to check this - just build the source with gradle before creating a pull request. The gradle default tasks will run checkstyle, findbugs and build the JavaDoc. If everything goes well, you're welcome to create a pull request.
Hint: If you use Eclipse as your IDE, you can simply run gradle eclipse to create the Eclipse project files. Furthermore you can import Eclipse formatter settings (see file config/eclipse-formatter.xml) that will assist you in formatting the lpdbox source code according the used coding conventions (no tabs, UTF-8 encoding, indent by 4 spaces, no line longer than 120 characters, etc.).