On Mar 13, 2006, at 1:39 AM, Chris Bowditch wrote:
Ben Litchfield wrote:
Jeremias,
I'll start by answering your questions
1)What is minimum JDK required by PDFBox?
PDFBox currently requires 1.4, because it uses ImageIO and a
couple other things that make development much easier. PDFBox was
compatible with 1.3 for a long time, but I made a decision that
sticking with 1.3 would cost too much in development time versus
using existing stuff in 1.4. In addition 1.3 is now two major
versions old and in the EOL phase. As this effort will take some
time before it could be released would it be reasonable to move
the minimum requirement up to 1.4 for Batik and FOP at that time?
I don't think FOP should step up to a minimum of 1.4. Just last
week a user was saying on the user mailing list that needed FOP to
run on JDK 1.2. A lot of big corporates are slow to upgrade their
unix operating systems. And sometimes it is very difficult to get
later JDK's working on older Unix platforms. Now since FOP is used
a lot in batch processing, we should not be so quick to exclude
these big corporations with old Unix platforms from using FOP.
In the case of my former company, we could not upgrade our machine
from the version of AIX (I think it was 4.x), and IBM 1.3.x was the
most recent version of JRE available.
One 'option' available, is fop-0.20.5 (which works great!). As long
as it remains available, that would be sufficient. <ducking>If we did
go that route, it may make sense to fix a few bugs in fop-0.20.5.</
ducking>.
Clay Leeds
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