fop minimum requirements
FOP's minimum requirements[1]: System Requirements The following software must be installed: Java 1.2.x or later Runtime Environment. FOP. The FOP distribution includes all libraries that you will need to run a basic FOP installation. These can be found in the xml-fop/lib directory. These libraries include the following: Apache Xerces-J for XML parsing. You can use other XML parsers which support SAX and DOM. Apache Xalan-J, an XSLT processor. Apache Batik, an SVG library. However, according to J.Pietschmann[2]: Chris Bowditch wrote: I did a quick search of the archives and found the thread that decrees 1.1 will no longer be supported and the minimum JDK is 1.2. Acutually I doubt FOP 0.20.5 will run completely in an 1.2 environment. The binary is compiled with 1.4.1, and I vaguely remember compiling problems already for 0.20.4 on 1.2. J.PIetschmann It would be nice to *know* (and post on our site) the real requirements for running FOP. If there are different minimum requirements for fop-20.4 and fop-0.20.5, this information should be on the FOP site. fop-users looking to fill their needs shouldn't have to download the latest version only to find it doesn't work under their lowly JRE. Web Maestro Clay p.s. On second thought, maybe that'll be something I'll figure out myself (although it would be better if the legwork were already done! :-D) [1] http://xml.apache.org/fop/running.html [2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=107353819024636w=2
Re: fop minimum requirements
Clay Leeds wrote: p.s. On second thought, maybe that'll be something I'll figure out myself (although it would be better if the legwork were already done! :-D) I don't have intentions to install a 1.2 on my smallish and almost full HD. There were, however, *zero* complaints about problems running 0.20.4 or 0.20.5. There were some poeple stuck with an oldish IBM 1.1.8 (or even 1.0.x) JDK on some exotic platforms, therefore if there were problems for typical use cases, I expect at least one to report it. Users of the precompiled binaries wont necessarily notice any problems though. J.Pietschmann
Re: fop minimum requirements
On Mar 3, 2004, at 1:23 PM, J.Pietschmann wrote: Clay Leeds wrote: p.s. On second thought, maybe that'll be something I'll figure out myself (although it would be better if the legwork were already done! :-D) I don't have intentions to install a 1.2 on my smallish and almost full HD. There were, however, *zero* complaints about problems running 0.20.4 or 0.20.5. There were some poeple stuck with an oldish IBM 1.1.8 (or even 1.0.x) JDK on some exotic platforms, therefore if there were problems for typical use cases, I expect at least one to report it. Users of the precompiled binaries wont necessarily notice any problems though. J.Pietschmann It's certainly a relief that there were no reported problems. I was concerned with this portion of your response: Acutually I doubt FOP 0.20.5 will run completely in an 1.2 environment. The binary is compiled with 1.4.1, and I vaguely remember compiling problems already for 0.20.4 on 1.2. ...but what you're saying, is that there should not be problems for *binary* versions--only if users want to build from src themselves under 1.2. If I understand things correctly, my response is Sounds good! Web Maestro Clay
Re: fop minimum requirements
Clay Leeds wrote: ...but what you're saying, is that there should not be problems for *binary* versions--only if users want to build from src themselves under 1.2. Well, no problems reported doesn't mean no problems. There may be well hidden problems in rarely used functionality, and people stumbling over them just stopped using FOP. It's certainly better to check. J.Pietschmann
