The fax4j is a Java fax library.
This library enables Java applications to invoke fax actions such as submitting fax jobs.
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The fax4j provides a standard and consistent faxing API to enable invoking the different fax actions from Java applications.
The fax4j library enables to integrate with fax services via many different SPI (service provider interface) implementations.
Currently fax4j supports the following implementations:
Windows native fax API (requires windows fax/tapi component installed)
Windows COM fax API (via VBS called from the Java layer, requires windows fax/tapi component installed)
Email (via email servers that enable to send fax message based on incoming email messages) including built-in support for many of the leading vendors.
HTTP
External Processes
Linux native fax API (requires linux efax utility)
Mac native fax API
HylaFax (via gnu-hylafax library)
And more...
In addition the fax4j library also provides the fax bridge API which is a context specific faxing API.
The fax bridge enables to transform emails servers, web servers and more into an online fax service.
The x2fax sub project provides a set of standalone servers and deployable components which enable to provide x2fax services out of the box.
The x2fax contains built-in email component to enhance email servers to provide email2fax services and HTTP servers and WARs to convert any Java web server into a web2fax bridge.
//get new instance of a fax client (based on internal + external fax4j.properties file data)
FaxClient faxClient=FaxClientFactory.createFaxClient();
//create a new fax job
FaxJob faxJob=faxClient.createFaxJob();
//set fax job values
faxJob.setFile(new File("./my_document.txt"));
faxJob.setPriority(FaxJobPriority.HIGH_PRIORITY);
faxJob.setTargetAddress("555-555");
faxJob.setTargetName("YourName");
faxJob.setSenderEmail("myemail@mycompany.com");
faxJob.setSenderName("MyName");
//submit fax job
faxClient.submitFaxJob(faxJob);
//print submitted fax job ID (may not be supported by all SPIs)
System.out.println("Fax job submitted, ID: "+faxJob.getID());
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You can also go to the tutorial at: javadoc
The fax4j library comes with a maven pom.xml which can be used to build the Java layer of the library.
On windows, the fax4j.dll will also be built, therefore the path for the msbuild.exe (in the .NET installation) must be set.
While this library supports java 1.5 and up, the build process of this library (not of depended libraries) require java 5/6.
However building this library from source is not required as it provide many extension capabilities via configuration.
Each SPI has it's requirements.
See the SPI javadoc for more information (each SPI javadoc contains the information relevant for it specifically).
You can also go to the tutorial at: javadoc
Each SPI has it's installation/setup requirements.
See the SPI javadoc for more information (each SPI javadoc contains the information relevant for it specifically).
You can also go to the tutorial at: javadoc
Currently this library is in maintenance mode and no future development is currently being planned.
The fax4j library is distributed under the "The Apache Software License, Version 2.0" license which means that it is possible to distribute this library also in commercial closed source products.
See license report for more info.
See Change Log for full report.