Rocket Scientist In 1982, Frank Morton introduced his family's then 60-year-old typesetting business to PCs and SGML, and he hasn't looked back since. An early adopter of PostScript, he developed an advanced publishing system in the late 1980s to remotely transfer files from desktops to imaging systems. After four years as VP of Technology at the largest commercial printer in the region, he founded Base2 Incorporated in 1997 to create Java servlet-based publishing solutions, including the "Digital Workflow Tookit."

Introduction

      The Blocks SpaceKit for Java is a software development kit that implements the Blocks eXtensible eXchange Protocol (BXXP) in Java. The SpaceKit provides tools to access existing Blocks servers as well as providing a framework for developing Blocks servers using Java.

What Do I Need To Use The Blocks SpaceKit for Java?

      The Blocks SpaceKit for Java requires "spacekit.jar" to be in the $CLASSPATH as required by the Java JDK. Optionally, it can be included in the java command line using -classpath as in this example to ping the indicated blocks server:

java -classpath ./spacekit.jar SpacePing sqa.invisible.net

      Java version 1.2.1 or later is required.

Additional Documentation

      Additional documentation is available at these locations:

http://xml.resource.org/profiles/BXXP/bxxp.html

http://xml.resource.org/profiles/SEP/sep.html

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	Tutorial Topics
	» Introduction 2 The Blocks SpaceKit for Java Client 3 Connecting and Channel Creation 4 Client Examples 5 The Blocks SpaceKit for Java Server: SpaceBxxd 6 SpaceBxxd - Responses 7 Localization Class Structure and Utilities 8 Reference