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Posted to dev@pdfbox.apache.org by Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com> on 2009/01/23 20:35:00 UTC
Apache PDFBox status update
Hi,
We're still a few weeks from our next Incubator status report, but I
wanted to write up a bit broader overview of what's been going on
recently, so here's blog post I just wrote about PDFBox status:
http://jukkaz.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/apache-pdfbox-status-update/
Full text copied below.
BR,
Jukka Zitting
Apache PDFBox status update
The PDFBox project is a well known and widely used Java library for
reading and writing documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF).
Here's my perspective on the recent developments of the project.
Project activity
The project was quite dormant when it entered the Apache Incubator
about a year ago after we had discussed the idea first at the
ApacheCon US 2007 and then on the Incubator mailing list. For a while
it looked like project would remain quiet, but in the past few months
we've seen a clear increase in project activity. Thanks for that goes
especially to the contributions of the two new committers, Andreas
Lehmkühler and Brian Carrier.
License review
My main focus in Apache PDFBox has recently been the thorough license
review that I've been conducting over the past months. Before entering
the Incubator, the PDFBox library was liberally licensed under a BSD
License. However, the copyright or licensing status of many external
components included in PDFBox was neither well documented nor well
understood by downstream projects. For example, PDFBox used to contain
parts of the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) library that is only
available under the Sun Binary Code License, a license that is not
compatible with Apache policies.
The license review has taken me through a number of legal issues, put
me in contact with the Adobe legal team, and made me solve some
followup issues. And we also took care of proper export control
notifications needed for the PDF encryption support in PDFBox. Luckily
the end is finally in sight, and I'm optimistic about having all the
remaining open issues closed within a month or so. Altogether it's
been a very interesting and educational process.
Next release
With the license review nearing completion and lots of unreleased
fixes and improvements accumulating in the project trunk, it is time
to start preparing for the first incubating PDFBox release. This
release will be called Apache PDFBox 0.8.0-incubating, and will be a
major improvement over the 0.7.3 release from over two years ago. All
downstream projects should seriously consider upgrading as soon as the
release becomes available. It would be really great if the release was
out by the ApacheCon Europe at the end of March.
Summary
As a mentor and champion of the project I am really happy with the
current status. It seems reasonable to expect PDFBox to graduate from
the Incubator sometime later this year.
Re: Apache PDFBox status update
Posted by Andreas Lehmkühler <an...@lehmi.de>.
> Yeah, we should start pushing to get the release out. Anyone
> interested in being the release manager? I'd be happy to do the
> release myself, but even happier to guide someone else through the
> Apache release process. :-)
Hmm, sounds interesting, but I fear it's a lot of work to do, isn't it?
>> Apropos, I saw that you will be in Amsterdam, I will be there, too. So
>> it's a good oppertunity to meet each other. Will someone else from here
>> be there?
>
> Great, I'm looking forward to meeting you! If there are more
> interested people around we could even have a BoF session on PDFBox.
I'll be at ApacheCon from wednesday to friday. I'd really like to attend
the hackathon but unfortunatly my time is limited.
>> P.S.: There is one little typo on the incubator- page of pdfbox. In the
>> news-section is one "r" missing at the end of my lastname.
>
> I'm sorry about that. I'll fix it.
No big problem. I found it by accident.
BR,
Andreas
Re: Apache PDFBox status update
Posted by Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>.
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Andreas Lehmkühler <an...@lehmi.de> wrote:
> sounds very good to me, espacially the point about the upcoming release.
> I guess it is an important milestone for the people using pdfbox to get
> a new precompiled version after more than 2 years. I hope too, that it
> will be out before ApacheCon.
Yeah, we should start pushing to get the release out. Anyone
interested in being the release manager? I'd be happy to do the
release myself, but even happier to guide someone else through the
Apache release process. :-)
> Apropos, I saw that you will be in Amsterdam, I will be there, too. So
> it's a good oppertunity to meet each other. Will someone else from here
> be there?
Great, I'm looking forward to meeting you! If there are more
interested people around we could even have a BoF session on PDFBox.
> P.S.: There is one little typo on the incubator- page of pdfbox. In the
> news-section is one "r" missing at the end of my lastname.
I'm sorry about that. I'll fix it.
BR,
Jukka Zitting
Re: Apache PDFBox status update
Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>.
I agree: a release would be a very good thing. Especially after noticing
that the latest changes in the PDF painter make it feasible to integrate
that into my FOP PDF plug-in, so people can include PDFs as images and
produce any FOP-supported output format (even vector based). Good work
there!!!
But I'm going to skip ApacheCon this year: mostly OutOfTimeException or
CloningNotSupportedException. :-(
On 26.01.2009 22:15:36 Andreas Lehmkühler wrote:
> Hi Jukka,
>
> sounds very good to me, espacially the point about the upcoming release.
> I guess it is an important milestone for the people using pdfbox to get
> a new precompiled version after more than 2 years. I hope too, that it
> will be out before ApacheCon.
> Apropos, I saw that you will be in Amsterdam, I will be there, too. So
> it's a good oppertunity to meet each other. Will someone else from here
> be there?
>
>
> BR
> Andreas
>
> P.S.: There is one little typo on the incubator- page of pdfbox. In the
> news-section is one "r" missing at the end of my lastname.
>
>
> > We're still a few weeks from our next Incubator status report, but I
> > wanted to write up a bit broader overview of what's been going on
> > recently, so here's blog post I just wrote about PDFBox status:
> >
> > http://jukkaz.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/apache-pdfbox-status-update/
> >
> > Full text copied below.
> >
> > BR,
> >
> > Jukka Zitting
> >
> > Apache PDFBox status update
> >
> > The PDFBox project is a well known and widely used Java library for
> > reading and writing documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF).
> > Here's my perspective on the recent developments of the project.
> >
> > Project activity
> >
> > The project was quite dormant when it entered the Apache Incubator
> > about a year ago after we had discussed the idea first at the
> > ApacheCon US 2007 and then on the Incubator mailing list. For a while
> > it looked like project would remain quiet, but in the past few months
> > we've seen a clear increase in project activity. Thanks for that goes
> > especially to the contributions of the two new committers, Andreas
> > Lehmkühler and Brian Carrier.
> >
> > License review
> >
> > My main focus in Apache PDFBox has recently been the thorough license
> > review that I've been conducting over the past months. Before entering
> > the Incubator, the PDFBox library was liberally licensed under a BSD
> > License. However, the copyright or licensing status of many external
> > components included in PDFBox was neither well documented nor well
> > understood by downstream projects. For example, PDFBox used to contain
> > parts of the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) library that is only
> > available under the Sun Binary Code License, a license that is not
> > compatible with Apache policies.
> >
> > The license review has taken me through a number of legal issues, put
> > me in contact with the Adobe legal team, and made me solve some
> > followup issues. And we also took care of proper export control
> > notifications needed for the PDF encryption support in PDFBox. Luckily
> > the end is finally in sight, and I'm optimistic about having all the
> > remaining open issues closed within a month or so. Altogether it's
> > been a very interesting and educational process.
> >
> > Next release
> >
> > With the license review nearing completion and lots of unreleased
> > fixes and improvements accumulating in the project trunk, it is time
> > to start preparing for the first incubating PDFBox release. This
> > release will be called Apache PDFBox 0.8.0-incubating, and will be a
> > major improvement over the 0.7.3 release from over two years ago. All
> > downstream projects should seriously consider upgrading as soon as the
> > release becomes available. It would be really great if the release was
> > out by the ApacheCon Europe at the end of March.
> >
> > Summary
> >
> > As a mentor and champion of the project I am really happy with the
> > current status. It seems reasonable to expect PDFBox to graduate from
> > the Incubator sometime later this year.
> >
>
>
> --
> Auf der Verpackung stand "benötigt Windows 9x/2000/XP oder BESSER", also
> habe ich Linux installiert.
Jeremias Maerki
Re: Apache PDFBox status update
Posted by Andreas Lehmkühler <an...@lehmi.de>.
Hi Jukka,
sounds very good to me, espacially the point about the upcoming release.
I guess it is an important milestone for the people using pdfbox to get
a new precompiled version after more than 2 years. I hope too, that it
will be out before ApacheCon.
Apropos, I saw that you will be in Amsterdam, I will be there, too. So
it's a good oppertunity to meet each other. Will someone else from here
be there?
BR
Andreas
P.S.: There is one little typo on the incubator- page of pdfbox. In the
news-section is one "r" missing at the end of my lastname.
> We're still a few weeks from our next Incubator status report, but I
> wanted to write up a bit broader overview of what's been going on
> recently, so here's blog post I just wrote about PDFBox status:
>
> http://jukkaz.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/apache-pdfbox-status-update/
>
> Full text copied below.
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
>
> Apache PDFBox status update
>
> The PDFBox project is a well known and widely used Java library for
> reading and writing documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF).
> Here's my perspective on the recent developments of the project.
>
> Project activity
>
> The project was quite dormant when it entered the Apache Incubator
> about a year ago after we had discussed the idea first at the
> ApacheCon US 2007 and then on the Incubator mailing list. For a while
> it looked like project would remain quiet, but in the past few months
> we've seen a clear increase in project activity. Thanks for that goes
> especially to the contributions of the two new committers, Andreas
> Lehmkühler and Brian Carrier.
>
> License review
>
> My main focus in Apache PDFBox has recently been the thorough license
> review that I've been conducting over the past months. Before entering
> the Incubator, the PDFBox library was liberally licensed under a BSD
> License. However, the copyright or licensing status of many external
> components included in PDFBox was neither well documented nor well
> understood by downstream projects. For example, PDFBox used to contain
> parts of the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) library that is only
> available under the Sun Binary Code License, a license that is not
> compatible with Apache policies.
>
> The license review has taken me through a number of legal issues, put
> me in contact with the Adobe legal team, and made me solve some
> followup issues. And we also took care of proper export control
> notifications needed for the PDF encryption support in PDFBox. Luckily
> the end is finally in sight, and I'm optimistic about having all the
> remaining open issues closed within a month or so. Altogether it's
> been a very interesting and educational process.
>
> Next release
>
> With the license review nearing completion and lots of unreleased
> fixes and improvements accumulating in the project trunk, it is time
> to start preparing for the first incubating PDFBox release. This
> release will be called Apache PDFBox 0.8.0-incubating, and will be a
> major improvement over the 0.7.3 release from over two years ago. All
> downstream projects should seriously consider upgrading as soon as the
> release becomes available. It would be really great if the release was
> out by the ApacheCon Europe at the end of March.
>
> Summary
>
> As a mentor and champion of the project I am really happy with the
> current status. It seems reasonable to expect PDFBox to graduate from
> the Incubator sometime later this year.
>
--
Auf der Verpackung stand "benötigt Windows 9x/2000/XP oder BESSER", also
habe ich Linux installiert.