I've not touched any of that code ever since I started investing time here. As mentioned earlier I would in fact prefer to drop that code if there was a better OSS replacement. It seems to me the zint project with @gitlost apparently being the lead maintainer now, would be a very good candidate if it was not for the licensing limitations (GPLv3)? I was about to pose the question of whether there could be done something about that but luckily stumbled upon the following statement in their README Please DO NOT post messages asking for us to change the license arrangements. You will be ignored.. I will henceforth not speak of it again. ;)

If anyone knows another alternative that is already better than this code base here, please speak up. A 15 minute google search did not reveal anything. Interestingly, though, the name zxing did not come up in that search either, which only underlines my impression that nether this nor even the upstream project are inherently associated with the generation side of the equation. That said, if there is no better commercial license compatible alternative then that is how it is.

Current limitations as far as I see them:

• inconsistent interface with the ReadBarcode side
• no DataBar support (DataBar and DataBar Expanded are not supported to write #197)
• possibly quite a few missing minor improvements that upstream Java code acquired over the last 3-4 years
• either the code is rock solid or simply unused, based on the bug-tracking history of the last couple of years

Questions to all: who does use this part and for what? What are you missing the most?