Welcome back Vincent! No, we switched from Avalon Logging to Commons
Logging some time ago. The FOPAvalonization page is rather out-of-date.
Victor and I tend to have different architectural ideas. I have not
researched his font work but I believe other team members are more
knowledgable about it. Fonts are hardly my speciality--I suspect our
font implementation in 1.0 can use some improvement though.
Thanks,
Glen
Vincent Hennebert wrote:
Hi Fop Team and Victor,
I'm considering to adapt Foray's font subsystem to Fop. I have already
experimented a bit and the thing seems to be rather feasible. So far I
have encountered two problems:
- logging mechanism: Foray uses the avalon framework while Fop uses
commons logging. The 2 APIs are similar but I suppose I'll have to
convert the avalon stuff into commons. Or are there any plans to
change the logging mechanism (I'm thinking about the FOPAvalonization
Wiki page)? Another minor problem will be to plug the right logger to
the font subsystem. I guess only one logger is created and passed
through all classes?
- the font subsystem is based on a client/server architecture; the
question is: which Fop class should be made a FontConsumer? And where
should the FontServer be created and held? So far I've used
FOEventHandler as a FontConsumer and a holder of a FontServer. It's
quite convenient but I'm not sure at all that it is good design; I'm
not yet used to Fop's overall architecture.
I welcome any additional thoughts/comments. Now starting to work...
Regards,
Vincent
