Hey folks, We're getting gradually closer to the open source release of our XLIFF translation editor (it's currently referred to as "STE" (Sun Translation Editor) - it'll definitely change it's name once it's released of course) and things are starting to progress again : it's been a hard slog, but the end is in sight.
Young asked me to drop this alias a mail to talk a bit about the prospects of using the STE with free java implementations. (at the risk of sounding like a troll) We've done a bit of investigation here and concluded that at the moment, it probably won't work with either GNU Classpath or Kaffe. There's only Boris (and me sometimes) working on the editor here, while I spend my time working on the rest of the XLIFF filters and TM server code -- right now, we don't have the bandwidth to try to make the code run on older or slightly incompatible Java implementations. Right now, we need to run the editor under the Sun JDK 1.4.2 or greater. Now, that's not to say it's impossible, or a bad thing to have the code run on a free java implementation, far from it - I'd love to make the editor as accessible as possible, just that we haven't got there yet. When the code is open-sourced, we'd be delighted to get help achieving this goal, along with the other hopes we have for the future of the editor and the rest of the translation tools, which we think are pretty nifty. If you haven't seen the editor before, there's a recorded demo at : http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/timf/20050204#live_xliff_editor_demo Loads more info on my blog about the tools as well - just need to dig a bit for it. cheers, tim ps. You might be interested in this post too : http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/timf/20050208#openoffice_org_sxw_to_xliff -- Tim Foster - Tools Engineer, Software Globalisation http://sunweb.ireland/~timf http://blogs.sun.com/timf http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/~timf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
