Hello, I've been doing some work with the DITA-OT team to address some of the issues concerning DITA-OT and it's interaction with various JDKs levels. I was wondering if you have had the chance to evaluate some of the changes made in the latest release of DITA-OT. I would be interested in hearing your comments and if we have addressed the issues in defect 1530443 [1].
I see that your product still supports JDK 1.4.X level JDKs. A user on the dita-users mailing list was asking whether or not we should move the development of DITA-OT Java classes to the JDK 5.0 level. One she wishes to provide the toolkit would make use of JDK 5.0 methods. As a consumer of the Toolkit I would like to here any comment regarding moving development of DITA-OT to JDK 5.0; good or bad. I have some reservations at the moment regarding the move. JDK 1.4.X is still the JDK that is shipped with some of the latest version or Linux and Mac OS X. As well there is still an issue with JDK 5.0 and Xalan that pops-ups once in a while when producing PDF output. We want to make that we have your products needs in mind before making a commitment on moving to JDK level for development. Kind regards, Eric [1] - http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1530443&group_id=132728&atid=725074 Eric A. Sirois Staff Software Developer DB2 Universal Database - Information Development DITA Migration and Tools Development IBM Canada Ltd. - Toronto Software Lab Email: esirois at ca.ibm.com Blue Pages (Internal) "Transparency and accessibility requirements dictate that public information and government transactions avoid depending on technologies that imply or impose a specific product or platform on businesses or citizens" - EU on XML-based office document formats.
