Geertjan Wielenga Lorem Ipsum: Now Generated in Java
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February 14th, the international day of sweet nothings, saw the release of Lorem Ipsum for Java, the new Java generator of space filler text. Never again will you need to put "aaaaa" in a demo field, or "xxxx", or something similar. Instead, you will be able to ooze the air of the Greeks of old, by generating text into your otherwise bare ui.
Published at DZone with permission of its author, Geertjan Wielenga.
And all that text will not need to have been typed, or copy/pasted, or anything similar. Instead, you will be able to use Java itself to generate the above filler text. The above 5 paragraphs of high minded mumbo jumbo came about like this:
LoremIpsum ipsum = new LoremIpsum();
String words = ipsum.getParagraphs(5);
And the lorem ipsum library is quite versatile:
So not only can you choose to generate either words or paragraphs, but the exact number of words and paragraphs can also be specified. Here's looking forward to seeing lorem ipsumized space fillers in all the demos of the future!
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Comments
Xelipe Zone replied on Tue, 2008/02/19 - 12:32am
"ooze the air of the Greeks of old"
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That is not Greek, it's Latin.
Geertjan Wielenga replied on Tue, 2008/02/19 - 2:37am
Stanley Styszynski replied on Tue, 2008/02/19 - 3:54am
So simple, it's genius :)
Serkan Gunes replied on Tue, 2008/02/19 - 5:47am
On the contrary, it is neither Greek nor Latin :)
It is based on Cicero's The Purposes of Good and Evil passage but it doesn't actuallu mean anything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
Jeroen Wenting replied on Wed, 2008/02/20 - 2:48am
well, Cicero wrote in Latin...
The words themselves mean nothing (or may, but not in the context where they're used), but they're based on Latin idiom rather than Greek.