Re: PDFBox needs Java 5?

2008-08-08 Thread Jeremias Maerki
I still have customers who have to deploy on Java 1.4 for the time being (mostly WebSphere environments) and my PDF-in-PDF plug-in for FOP is being used in these environments. If PDFBox moves to Java 1.5 that's fine. It just means for me that I have to stick to that old PDFBox version I have until

Re: PDFBox needs Java 5?

2008-08-08 Thread Philipp Koch
hi, java 1.4.2 eol (end of live) period completes October 30th, 2008, when J2SE 1.4.2 will have reached its End of Service Life (EOSL). from that point of view it would make sense to me to switch to java 1.5 completely. this would mean that we could skip special java 1.5 source folders and could ma

Re: Proposed XMP handling (was: SVN structure in PDFBox)

2008-08-08 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Hmm, I've started that proposal locally but when it came to serializing XMP I noticed that Adobe's XMP toolkit is pretty limited in that area: they don't support serializing to SAX which is important to me in the FOP context. Now, I'm not sure if I should invest much more time in my proposal in th