[ANN] Apache XML Graphics Commons 1.3 Released

[Jeremias Maerki <je...@apache.org>]

The Apache XML Graphics team is pleased to announce a new release of
Apache XML Graphics Commons.

Apache XML Graphics Commons is a library that consists of several
reusable components used by Apache Batik [1] and Apache FOP [2]. Many of
these components can easily be used separately outside the domains of
SVG and XSL-FO.

The most important addition in this release is an image loading
framework which supports all sorts of different image formats (bitmap
and vector) and is highly extensible.

Besides that, there were a larger number of smaller additions and
bugfixes.

Support for Java 1.3 has been dropped. Java 1.4 or later is required now.

For a detailed list of changes, see
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/changes.html

Source and binary distributions can be downloaded from the
corresponding directories in an Apache Software Foundation mirror at:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlgraphics/commons. See also
the download page: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/download.html


Jeremias Maerki,
on behalf of the Apache XML Graphics PMC

[1] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/
[2] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/

Re: [ANN] Apache XML Graphics Commons 1.3 Released

[Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>]

There is a short description of the image loader framework here:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/image-loader.html

ImageIO is too strongly focused on bitmap images IMO. Handling vector
graphic images would have meant bending ImageIO to our will. I don't
think that would have gone well. The image loader framework here is well
suited to describe an image's in-memory representation and to convert
between representations. At any rate, I've made use of ImageIO
facilities whenever feasible.

On 10.03.2008 23:55:13 Daniel Noll wrote:
> On Monday 10 March 2008 18:32:22 Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> > The most important addition in this release is an image loading
> > framework which supports all sorts of different image formats (bitmap
> > and vector) and is highly extensible.
> 
> Interesting.  As I can't see any discussion of this on the web site itself, 
> what are the benefits of this image loading framework vs. the ImageIO 
> framework included in the JRE?  I ask this as it has the same kind of 
> features, such as the ability to get image width and height without loading 
> the image itself.  And it has certainly been possible to make custom ImageIO 
> classes which handle vector images.
> 
> Daniel
> 



Jeremias Maerki


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Re: [ANN] Apache XML Graphics Commons 1.3 Released

[Daniel Noll <da...@nuix.com>]

On Monday 10 March 2008 18:32:22 Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> The most important addition in this release is an image loading
> framework which supports all sorts of different image formats (bitmap
> and vector) and is highly extensible.

Interesting.  As I can't see any discussion of this on the web site itself, 
what are the benefits of this image loading framework vs. the ImageIO 
framework included in the JRE?  I ask this as it has the same kind of 
features, such as the ability to get image width and height without loading 
the image itself.  And it has certainly been possible to make custom ImageIO 
classes which handle vector images.

Daniel

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