I agree: a release would be a very good thing. Especially after noticing that the latest changes in the PDF painter make it feasible to integrate that into my FOP PDF plug-in, so people can include PDFs as images and produce any FOP-supported output format (even vector based). Good work there!!!
But I'm going to skip ApacheCon this year: mostly OutOfTimeException or CloningNotSupportedException. :-( On 26.01.2009 22:15:36 Andreas Lehmkühler wrote: > Hi Jukka, > > sounds very good to me, espacially the point about the upcoming release. > I guess it is an important milestone for the people using pdfbox to get > a new precompiled version after more than 2 years. I hope too, that it > will be out before ApacheCon. > Apropos, I saw that you will be in Amsterdam, I will be there, too. So > it's a good oppertunity to meet each other. Will someone else from here > be there? > > > BR > Andreas > > P.S.: There is one little typo on the incubator- page of pdfbox. In the > news-section is one "r" missing at the end of my lastname. > > > > We're still a few weeks from our next Incubator status report, but I > > wanted to write up a bit broader overview of what's been going on > > recently, so here's blog post I just wrote about PDFBox status: > > > > http://jukkaz.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/apache-pdfbox-status-update/ > > > > Full text copied below. > > > > BR, > > > > Jukka Zitting > > > > Apache PDFBox status update > > > > The PDFBox project is a well known and widely used Java library for > > reading and writing documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF). > > Here's my perspective on the recent developments of the project. > > > > Project activity > > > > The project was quite dormant when it entered the Apache Incubator > > about a year ago after we had discussed the idea first at the > > ApacheCon US 2007 and then on the Incubator mailing list. For a while > > it looked like project would remain quiet, but in the past few months > > we've seen a clear increase in project activity. Thanks for that goes > > especially to the contributions of the two new committers, Andreas > > Lehmkühler and Brian Carrier. > > > > License review > > > > My main focus in Apache PDFBox has recently been the thorough license > > review that I've been conducting over the past months. Before entering > > the Incubator, the PDFBox library was liberally licensed under a BSD > > License. However, the copyright or licensing status of many external > > components included in PDFBox was neither well documented nor well > > understood by downstream projects. For example, PDFBox used to contain > > parts of the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) library that is only > > available under the Sun Binary Code License, a license that is not > > compatible with Apache policies. > > > > The license review has taken me through a number of legal issues, put > > me in contact with the Adobe legal team, and made me solve some > > followup issues. And we also took care of proper export control > > notifications needed for the PDF encryption support in PDFBox. Luckily > > the end is finally in sight, and I'm optimistic about having all the > > remaining open issues closed within a month or so. Altogether it's > > been a very interesting and educational process. > > > > Next release > > > > With the license review nearing completion and lots of unreleased > > fixes and improvements accumulating in the project trunk, it is time > > to start preparing for the first incubating PDFBox release. This > > release will be called Apache PDFBox 0.8.0-incubating, and will be a > > major improvement over the 0.7.3 release from over two years ago. All > > downstream projects should seriously consider upgrading as soon as the > > release becomes available. It would be really great if the release was > > out by the ApacheCon Europe at the end of March. > > > > Summary > > > > As a mentor and champion of the project I am really happy with the > > current status. It seems reasonable to expect PDFBox to graduate from > > the Incubator sometime later this year. > > > > > -- > Auf der Verpackung stand "benötigt Windows 9x/2000/XP oder BESSER", also > habe ich Linux installiert. Jeremias Maerki
