FOP 0.95 stable

[Jacques Le Roux]

I propose to migrate except if someone is aware of compatiblity issue with OFBiz ? (we use v.0.94 currently)
There is also barcode4j
xalan-2.7.0.jar and serializer-2.7.0.jar  still needed ? http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Libraries+Included+in+OFBiz

Jacques

PS : from FOP team

Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven by
XSL Formatting Objects [1] and an output independent formatter. It is a
Java application that reads a formatting object tree and renders the
resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently
supported include PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, Print and TIFF/PNG. Apache FOP is
Open Source software and published under the Apache License v2.0.

It took longer than expected but we're happy to present the final Apache
FOP 0.95 stable release. This is basically a bugfix release to 0.95beta.
The most important changes since the previous stable release (0.94) are:
- many bug fixes and improvements in tables, better support for keeps
  and breaks, new features: conditional borders and background on
  columns and header/footer/body;
- better image handling thanks to the new image loading framework
  provided by the Apache XML Graphics Commons dependency;
- improvements and bugfixes for font handling and font
  auto-detection/-registration;
- performance improvements and memory optimizations for the property
  handling in the FO tree.
- elimination of a potential multi-threading problem.
- some feature enhancements for RTF output (partial fo:leader support,
  fo:page-number-citation)

Please note that support for Java 1.3 has been dropped. Only one type of
binaries is provided now, that will run on 1.4+ JREs.

Other important release notes are available at
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/releaseNotes_0.95.html

For a more complete list of changes, please visit
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95.html

For download information, see the following page:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/


On behalf of the Apache XML Graphics team,
Jeremias Maerki

[Jacopo Cappellato-3]

It would be great to do the upgrade.
As regards the dependencies: I don't know but I am sure that all the  
required (and more) jars will be packeged in the FOP binary  
distrribution and we will have to decide which one to include/upgrade  
in OFBiz.

Jacopo

On Aug 6, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

> I propose to migrate except if someone is aware of compatiblity  
> issue with OFBiz ? (we use v.0.94 currently)
> There is also barcode4j
> xalan-2.7.0.jar and serializer-2.7.0.jar  still needed ? http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Libraries+Included+in+OFBiz
>
> Jacques
>
> PS : from FOP team
>
> Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter  
> driven by
> XSL Formatting Objects [1] and an output independent formatter. It  
> is a
> Java application that reads a formatting object tree and renders the
> resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently
> supported include PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, Print and TIFF/PNG. Apache FOP is
> Open Source software and published under the Apache License v2.0.
>
> It took longer than expected but we're happy to present the final  
> Apache
> FOP 0.95 stable release. This is basically a bugfix release to  
> 0.95beta.
> The most important changes since the previous stable release (0.94)  
> are:
> - many bug fixes and improvements in tables, better support for keeps
>  and breaks, new features: conditional borders and background on
>  columns and header/footer/body;
> - better image handling thanks to the new image loading framework
>  provided by the Apache XML Graphics Commons dependency;
> - improvements and bugfixes for font handling and font
>  auto-detection/-registration;
> - performance improvements and memory optimizations for the property
>  handling in the FO tree.
> - elimination of a potential multi-threading problem.
> - some feature enhancements for RTF output (partial fo:leader support,
>  fo:page-number-citation)
>
> Please note that support for Java 1.3 has been dropped. Only one  
> type of
> binaries is provided now, that will run on 1.4+ JREs.
>
> Other important release notes are available at
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/releaseNotes_0.95.html
>
> For a more complete list of changes, please visit
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95.html
>
> For download information, see the following page:
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html
>
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/
>
>
> On behalf of the Apache XML Graphics team,
> Jeremias Maerki

[Jacques Le Roux]

From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
> It would be great to do the upgrade.
> As regards the dependencies: I don't know but I am sure that all the  
> required (and more) jars will be packeged in the FOP binary  
> distrribution and we will have to decide which one to include/upgrade  
> in OFBiz.
>
> Jacopo

I should have a look soon

Jacques
 

> On Aug 6, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>
>> I propose to migrate except if someone is aware of compatiblity  
>> issue with OFBiz ? (we use v.0.94 currently)
>> There is also barcode4j
>> xalan-2.7.0.jar and serializer-2.7.0.jar  still needed ? http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Libraries+Included+in+OFBiz
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>> PS : from FOP team
>>
>> Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter  
>> driven by
>> XSL Formatting Objects [1] and an output independent formatter. It  
>> is a
>> Java application that reads a formatting object tree and renders the
>> resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently
>> supported include PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, Print and TIFF/PNG. Apache FOP is
>> Open Source software and published under the Apache License v2.0.
>>
>> It took longer than expected but we're happy to present the final  
>> Apache
>> FOP 0.95 stable release. This is basically a bugfix release to  
>> 0.95beta.
>> The most important changes since the previous stable release (0.94)  
>> are:
>> - many bug fixes and improvements in tables, better support for keeps
>>  and breaks, new features: conditional borders and background on
>>  columns and header/footer/body;
>> - better image handling thanks to the new image loading framework
>>  provided by the Apache XML Graphics Commons dependency;
>> - improvements and bugfixes for font handling and font
>>  auto-detection/-registration;
>> - performance improvements and memory optimizations for the property
>>  handling in the FO tree.
>> - elimination of a potential multi-threading problem.
>> - some feature enhancements for RTF output (partial fo:leader support,
>>  fo:page-number-citation)
>>
>> Please note that support for Java 1.3 has been dropped. Only one  
>> type of
>> binaries is provided now, that will run on 1.4+ JREs.
>>
>> Other important release notes are available at
>> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/releaseNotes_0.95.html
>>
>> For a more complete list of changes, please visit
>> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95.html
>>
>> For download information, see the following page:
>> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/
>>
>>
>> On behalf of the Apache XML Graphics team,
>> Jeremias Maerki
>
>