Re: XMP library (was: Release JempBox 0.8.0-incubating)

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

Hi Andreas

I don't suggest at all that this should interfere with the PDFBox
release. This idea of a joint XMP library is simply an idea I've had
some time ago but I haven't been able to put enough energy behind it to
make it happen. Of course, if there's someone else who would equally be
interested, that could motivate me to promote up on my loooong private
fun task list. I really think it would be great to have one versatile
XMP library at the ASF. Multiple projects could profit: PDFBox, XML
Graphics, Sanselan, Tika. Besides that I'm going to have to deal with
document metadata in the near future where XMP is ideal for me. Anyway,
having an XMP library "hidden" in either PDFBox or XML Graphics Commons
is not ideal, especially since this is so easily separated. Creating a
common font library is much more difficult.

On 30.03.2009 09:12:54 Andreas Lehmkühler wrote:
> Hi Jeremias,
> 
> > Still wondering if we can merge or replace JempBox with XML Graphics
> > Commons' XMP package by moving it to Apache Commons but it's my own
> > fault that I still haven't found the time to put actions to words.

> I already have a quick look at that point some weeks ago and it seems
> to be possible to replace JempBox with the XML Graphics
> Commons' XMP package. But I ran ot of time to look deeper into that...
> I suggest to try that after the 0.8 release, so that people are able to
> get soon an updated and of course apache version of pdfbox which will
> close the big gap (concerning new features and bugfixes) between the
> last released version 0.7.3 and the upcoming version.
> 
> Andreas Lehmkühler




Jeremias Maerki