Building Zxing to Use in Blackberry Java Development

Zxing is a open source tools to read/writer various format of Barcode. Currently I'm using it for my blackberry java application.

This tutorials is about how to build zxing core using Ant.

1. Dowloand zxing from http://code.google.com/p/zxing/
2. Download Apache Ant http://ant.apache.org/
3. Extract the Apache ant to a folder e.g. C:\apache-ant-1.8.2
4. Extract the zxing (I'm using version 1.6) to a folder e.g C:\zxing-1.6
5. Type this to build zxing core.jar
   
   C:\zxing-1.6> ant -f core/build.xml
   
   Make sure ant.bat is accessible from System Path, or you can type full directory such as
   C:\apache-ant-1.8.2\bin\ant instead of ant.
   
6. Build zxing j2me.jar
   Make sure you have set the WTK-home in the build.properties
   (check C:\zxing-1.6\build.properties)
   
   WTK-home=D:\\Java_ME_platform_SDK_3.0
   
   (this is the location of Java ME SDK 3.0 installation folder)
   
   Set the location of Proguard.jar
   
   proguard-jar=D:\\proguard4.6\\proguard4.6\\lib\\proguard.jar
   
   
   
   Note: notice that in Java ME SDK 3.0 untuk JSR135 Mobile Media API (MMAPI) using JSR135_1.1 version, and there's no JSR135_1.2 version.
   
   So, edit build.xml for javame build (check C:\zxing-1.6\javame\build.xml)
   REPLACE jsr135_1.2.jar with jsr135_1.1.jar
   
   Then type in the console: 
   
   C:\zxing-1.6> ant -f javame/build.xml -lib D:\Java_ME_platform_SDK_3.0\lib;D:\proguard4.6\lib
   
7. Generate zxing for rim client (rim build)
   
   zxing-1.6 using preverify1.1.exe, but Java ME SDK 3.0 only have preverify.exe
   
   edit rim/build.xml
   Find text preverify1.1, and replace with preverify
   
   Type in the console:
   
   C:\zxing-1.6> ant -f rim/build.xml
   
   Note: -lib in the ant command is used for specifying the classpath. For multiple classpath, we can use semicolon (;)
   See http://ant.apache.org/manual/running.html for more details