Guillaume,
thanks for your prompt feedback. Some comments below:
I've been looking at jopendocument for a few days, and considering
using it for our project. I have several questions:
- Is this project continued? The authors are taking care of the users
community?
I think we are open, we are pleased to share ideas and provide help.
Bug reports and contributions are welcome.
Great :) I think this important before committing myself to some
third-party library :P
- Are the 1.1 sources for JDK5 available somewhere? I can't get to
compile corrently the provided sources with 1.5
The source code is the same.
The incompatible part with JDK5 are the ScriptEngine related classes,
because only included in JDK6.
I think you see some errors related to the "source code level" which
is Java 6 ( @override, etc...)
but you can use it with JDK5.
Ok, so I guess I should only discard these classes. Good, thanks :)
- Is this the real mailing list? :P The link at jopendocument.org
points somewhere else (and is not available anymore)
We switched to googlegroups, our "old" mailing list was hosted on
jopendocument.org, that's why the history is so small.
Ah, nice. I thought I was sending email in vain :P :P
I would like to point out a problem I realized too late during my
investigation in this library. Unfortunately (for us) the jOpenDocument
is GPL licensed, which makes it impossible for us to integrate in our
product. Commercial license is neither an option :P So I finally decided
creating my own :( This is one of the problems of business-unfriendly
licenses like GPL.
I guess so make some revenue from selling commercial licenses of
jOpenDocument, but... I wonder if you have considered using a less
strict license, like Apache or EPL. I believe this is library is very
valuable, and having such licenses would help in growing up a bigger and
more committed community, attract more adopters and, of course,
improving the quality of the component. And if you worry, there is still
chances to make revenue in such scenario ;)
Just my two cents ;)
Thanks for the feedback, and all the best for the future of
jOpenDocument :-D
Víctor.
