[poppler] JNI interface for poppler

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Diumenge, 27 de maig de 2012, a les 08:16:35, Thomas Freitag va escriure:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm wondering a little bit why all threads with the theme "Using poppler
> in java" seems to run in a dead end. Is it
> a) because the poppler community has no interests?

Personally i have no interest :D

> b) because the people opening the threads are not willing to work on it?

Most probably

> c) because they are opening new projects which are not supported by poppler?

Don't understand what you mean here.

> If a) is the case stop reading, if c) is the case (but I haven't found one)
> I would be really surprised, because it is in the nature of JNI interfaces
> they should be supported by the C/C++ developpers: One good reason is that
> C/C++ interface functions could be changed between
> versions and it is annoying to keep after in this case the poppler
> versions, another good reason is that a lot of C/C++ libraries uses
> error exits / error handler which is hard to support in a JNI library
> (throwing / catching exceptions is nearly impossible in a JNI library,
> an exit would cause the java application to die, too), and at least the
> jpeg library and the lcms library used by poppler have these kind of
> error handler.

Do you mean here that it'll be easier to code that JNI stuff inside the 
poppler repo that outside the poppler repo?

> If b) is the case, okay, I'm willing to start a JNI project. I'm
> thinking of start with something like the cpp by Pino in Java, but I
> would first like to gather some requests what should be possible in a
> Java interfaces. Another idea could be creating a FOP extension based on
> poppler, I had some bad experiences with using PDFBox, i.e. endless
> loops if I just want to extract the text from a PDF document.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
> 
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