[cups.development] CUPS Java API

[Michael R Sweet]

Opher Shachar wrote:
>> George Liu wrote:
>>> >From http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1593, Michael said the following:
>>>
>>> "Well, this isn't our software, and I don't know how Sun is interfacing
>>> with CUPS. The "official" CUPS Java API in scripting/java does not have
>>> this problem."
>>>
>>> Are there still CUPS Java API around? Where can I find more information
>>> about it?
>> The CUPS Java API has been dropped in 1.4 since we have nobody to
>> maintain it and had never installed it as a standard part of CUPS.
>>
>> You can still find the code in 1.3.x (scripting/java).
>>
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>> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer
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> 
> Michael, the mentioned code is, as you may know, broken.
> I patched it - with minimal rework, leaving the public interface intact - to working state. Would you be interested for me to upload it?

Like I said, we are no longer developing that code.  You can certainly
post a link to the code on the links page, but we are not interested
in hosting it or continuing its development.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer