That sounds like a good suggestion.
To start with I think we should consider only this: FOP behaves exactly the same but instead of having its own pdf generation code then iText is used as a library to generate pdf. So the questions are: - is the license useable - is the api sufficient for FOP to use Once this is sorted out then we can think of other areas. On 2002.03.12 15:05 Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > From: "New, Cecil (GEAE)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > My suggestion was *not* to merge the two! > > > > iText is a Java API with a document creation focus. In this day and > age, > > XSL:FO can be viewed as just another document type - in the same way > that > > more proprietary or older formats are (that is, PDF, RTF, etc.). > > Sorry if it's a bit off-topic, but this issue is similar to the one we > just > managed to handle between POI (http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/) and Cocoon > (http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/). > > POI is a project that makes it possible to read-write common office file > formats in Java. > Cocoon is an XML processing framework-server. > > The POI team donated a Cocoon component that uses POI and outputs XML, > but > on the Cocoon side, committers saw too much POI code in it. > > Basically we understood that a project to read-write a file format should > have a solid Java API. Other projects can use it to produce other > results. > Merging is not the best solution, both for developers and users. > > >From this experience, I would humbly suggest that, after getting the > licencing stuff straight, FOP could be refactored to use iText as a PDF > generation step. > In this way communities can focus on a smaller part of the project with > greater efficiency, and the two products may have a much wider > applicability > than a single merged one. > > Since iText has a strong community behind it, since it would like to > integrate code with FOP, thus coming to Apache, and since FOP could use > part > of it proficiently, I would like to see iText make a proposal at Jakarta > for > the creation of a project. > All details for this are under > http://jakarta.apache.org/site/newproject.html . > > What do you think? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
