LoremIpsum4J is a Java class for generating Lorem Ipsum text. Lorem Ipsum is basically mockup text for printing and typesetting industry.

LoremIpsum4J uses web service in www.lipsum.com, which is excellent web site about Lorem Ipsum and also includes  online generator of Lorem Ipsum paragraphs.

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Source code

Java class

Documentation

You can view the source code online.

JavaDoc for the class is also available.

Samples

Here are couple of code fragments that demonstrate LoremIpsum4J usage.

Generate 2 Lorem Ipsum paragraphs

LoremIpsum4J loremIpsum=new LoremIpsum4J();
String[] paragraphs=loremIpsum.getParagraphs(2);

getParagraphs() returns a string array that contains requested
paragraphs.

Similar functionality is available also for words.

Generate 42 Lorem Ipsum words

LoremIpsum4J loremIpsum=new LoremIpsum4J();
String[] paragraphs=loremIpsum.getWords(42);

getWords() returns array of lorem ipsum paragraphs that contain requested
number of words.

There are also methods getBytes() and getList() which work like the examples above.

Version history

-Changed license to GPLv3.
-Updated code to use Java generics (JDK 1.5 and later).

1.2 (27.10.2006)

-Added command line usage to LoremIpsum4J class.
Usage:
java com.softabar.lipsum.LoremIpsum4J [-type <paras | words | bytes>] [-amount number] [-start <true | false>]