At ApacheCon last week, I got the impression that quite a few Apache projects (especially the Lucene and XML Graphics communities) have a particular interest in PDFBox, a library for manipulating PDF files (BSD license): http://www.pdfbox.org
Ben Litchfield, PDFBox's main author, has contacted the FOP devs about a year ago to find out if there are possibilities to work together more closely. FOP has a PDF library of its own but both projects could gain a few things by eventually merging the PDF functionality. Back then, a few FOP people basically found this a good idea but due to the lack of free resources on both sides this hasn't been pursued, yet. Maybe the itch wasn't hard enough but it's building. So, after hearing PDFBox mentioned many times last week, I thought it might be a good idea to ask around inside a wider area to see how the ASF is potentially interested in adopting PDFBox among its projects. Ben and I exchanged another mail yesterday and and he is still interested in pursuing this idea. I could allocate time for this starting in October 2007. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
