Eric Sirois wrote: > > 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. >
Thank you very much for taking the time to ask! [1] XMLmind XML Editor is supposed to run on any machine, even when the Java[tm] runtime installed on it is pretty dusty. That's why we do not intend to rely on Java[tm] 1.5+ anytime soon. [2] Our support for DITA is delivered as an *add-on* of XMLmind XML Editor. If your future DITA OT only works on Java[tm] 1.5, this simply means that a user having installed our DITA add-on (including a minimal copy of your DITA OT) really needs to run XXE using Java[tm] 1.5. Not a big problem. In a nutshell, feel free to do whatever you want.
