Gregor B. Rosenauer wrote: > > For my diploma thesis, I want to use XXE and Docbook. > I am very happy with the first tests on Windows/x86, but on Linux/PPC, I > have no Sun JDK available (only <1.5), so the dependency on a Sun JDK is > a showstopper for me on PPC. > > However, my laptop is PPC (Powerbook with Gentoo Linux:), and I wonder > if it would be possible to release a version of XXE that works with more > than one JDK,-)? Isn't this the essence of Java, that you can run > Java-code with any conformant JDK?
In theory, this is true. In practice, this is not always true. For example, making XXE run smoothly on the Mac (Sun JDK ported by Apple to the Mac) required a lot of hard work and the code contains a few "if(MAC)" sections. > The only feasible JDK on PPC for me is IBM's JDK, which is very robust > and fast from my impressions. How hard would it be to make XXE open to > at least IBM's JDK? Why don't give it a try? Download the .zip or .tar.gz distribution, unzip it somewhere (e.g. /opt/xxe-std-3_4_0/), make sure that you have java (1.4+) in your $PATH and then try to run "/opt/xxe-std-3_4_0/bin/xxe &". But, whether this works or not, please remember this: Excerpts of http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/limitations.html --- XXE should run fine on any platform supporting JavaTM 1.4+. However it is officially supported only on: o Windows NT/2000/XP with the Windows Look and Feel (LAF), o MacOS X 10.3+ with the Macintosh LAF, o Linux 2.4+ with the Metal LAF. It is possible to use XXE on other platforms (e.g. Solaris) and/or with other LAFs (e.g. GTK) but without support from XMLmind. --- --- PS: There is no way to make XXE run with GNU gjc, Classpath and al, which is the ``official Java'' of many Linux distributions.
