I'm working on a web app that will need to process DITA documents from persistent storage (likely a JCR). The DITA Open Toolkit is the only DITA implementation I'm aware of, but it requires all of your documents to exist on the filesystem. Ideally, I'd like something that works like the DITA OT, but allows you to provide a resolver (much like an XSLT URIResolver) to pull referenced content from other sources.
If people have other ideas, such as using a virtual filesystem to trick the DITA OT into working, I'd love to hear those too. Thanks!
Edit: I forgot to mention in the original post that I'm looking for an open-source solution, as this is for a project released under the Educational Community License.
After some evaluation, the newest version of the XMLMind Dita Converter (ditac) is really up to the job. Performance is at least double that of the Open Toolkit for building identical projects: http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/
One thing to note about XMLMind Dita Converter (ditac) is that it's released under the Mozilla Public License, which according to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses is not compatible with GPL.
Look at Arbortext (specifically Arbortext Content Manager). Arbortext supports xinclude, catalog files, and it also has a production-ready PDF and digital media publishing tool that you don't get with the OTK. The OTK isn't really meant to be for production.
Yes, I'm a vendor (now), but I started as an implementer more than a decade ago. I answer a lot of community questions and sponsor two dozen resources for getting people's questions answered. The best of which is the SF Bay PTC Arbortext User Group (Virtual).
Are you looking to do something like what Juniper is doing? (I can only post one link, so it's going to be mine..) go to juniper dot net, choose support, technical documentation, ex-series platforms, any of the ex series docs. They're showing topics on the web directly (it's also inside the source code on the router and in the pdf books). It would help if I understood what you're trying to do.
Feel free to reach out to me offline.
This new set of DITA XProc pipelines on the EMC Developer Network might be worth looking into. It can be downloaded free for development (and there's an XProc engine there as well).
This package appeared at the end of October 2010.
Quote: "The aim of the project is to provide an alternative to the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) that does not rely on file system-based processing, has no direct dependency on Java and Ant, and makes use of the XML processing capabilities of XProc to offer greater flexibility, extensibility, portability, and ultimately also better performance. The pipelines use standard XProc features as much as possible, so with little or no effort, users should be able to use them with any compliant XProc implementation. The pipelines have been tested with EMC Documentum XProc Engine (Calumet) version 1.0.12."
My coworker just talk to me about DITA Compiler. Apparently it's part of xml mind.
According to him, the implementation isn't quite complete.
Maybe DITA2Go can help:
http://www.dita2go.com/
DITA2Go allows your files to be anyplace you please, as you requested. It also has numerous extensions beyond what the OT provides, such as scoped keydefs and ditavals, which are under consideration for DITA 1.3. It was created with intense collaboration of two TC members working on major live projects, and is used by hundreds of people currently.
It is also about ten times as fast as the OT, thanks to C++, and requires no programming skills at all to use.
It is free, but it is not Open Source. It is fully supported and the developers fix bugs immediately and often add new features in a day or two on request. It shares a large part of its code with a commercial product, Mif2Go, which is the tool used by about 25% of FrameMaker users who are moving to DITA, according to a recent survey.
I don't see a requirement for the tools used to create a freely-licensed document to be Open Source themselves. There are absolutely no restrictions on use of the output, which obviously belongs to the user, not to Omni Systems.
HTH!
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I am finding mixed results googling. I have a need to parse a SPSS .sav file to discover the data layout and extract the survey results. Step one is to read the "schema" of the data. For example I need to know the question and its type of allowed responses. I plan to model this data in my own SQL table so I can slice and dice it per my apps requirements. Step two is populate my data model with the respondents answers. Looking at the SPSS sav file I believe it has both types of data I am looking for.
I don't need or want the expensive SPSS software if I don't strictly require it. We will not be doing statistics on this data, just selecting subsets of respondents based on answer filters. The SPSS file will be provided by a partner company that licenses SPSS. I do not need to out any data back into SPSS; my use case is read-only.
I can use Python, Java with or without Groovy, C/C++ for my parser program. This program will be run once at the end of data collection so performance is not particularly important. Ideally I'd like my code to be cross platform so I can develop on my Mac and deploy to Linux, but I can use windows if I must,
A lot of what am finding is either java classes from 2004 or modern Python code that requires a DLL from IBM and is windows specific. Based on my quick explanation of requirements, I would appreciate recommendations from the SO community. I think my needs are simple, but haven't found exactly what I had hoped. An open source lib would be ideal, but I'd even pay for a simple commercial solution at a reasonable price.
You can get the SPSS i/o modules with detailed documentation for free in order to build your own app to read (or write) sav files. The modules are available for all platforms supported by SPSS Statistics.
Go to the SPSS Community site at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/spssdevcentral and follow the links for SPSS Downloads. You have to register, but that is free.
The SAV file is a binary format with a number of complex structures, so it is better to use the i/o modules. And if new features are added to the SAV file, which has often happened, the i/o modules are updated at the same time, so your code won't go out of date.
HTH,
Jon Peck
GNU PSPP can apparently read SPSS data files. I also found a link to a description of the format in the PSPP source, although it comes with a warning "don't try to read/write this format directly."
There is a java library here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spss-writer/
I am actually trying to create a browser based IDE for educational purpose to code java language programs. I want it to be something like eclipse orion except that the IDE will be capable of compiling and debugging java language code (and it will be only a bare bones IDE). And also, I want to add real time collaboration to at least the editor part of the IDE.
Would it be possible to create an online IDE that would have real time collaboration like the google docs? Also, is MobWrite one of the ways of achieving it and is it good?
If it is possible, please inform me.
Thank you very much in advance.
I think there is an interesting option out there by IBM(Just rode in a blog),
called "Web Browser-Based Interaction with the Eclipse IDE".
Have a look at this link:
http://www.rodenas.org/blog/2007/10/16/eclifox-web-browser-based-interaction-with-the-eclipse-ide/
So the answer is yes, it is possible somehow.
I hope it helps.
Update:
There is a similar question already on that topic(but browser interaction with the IDE is not mentioned), have a look at it, maybe can be helpful:
Real-time collaboration in Eclipse
In theory, anything is possible.
In practice, I'm not sure that collaborative programming ... where lots of people are hacking on the same files in real time ... is going to be productive.
Programs are qualitatively different to text / markup documents. When you two people are simultaneously editing a program, semantically conflicting edits can break the "work" in a far more fundamental way than conflicting edits on a document. I don't see this being an effective way to write programs.
Sure, JavaWIDE is what you are looking for: http://www.javawide.org
It has concurrent editing, and you can compile and run directly in the browser.
JavaWIDE is free and sites are available to educational institutions.
Feel free to try it out (no account needed) at http://sandbox.javawide.org
Cloud9 IDE has multi-language support has recently released a new collaborative tools including a new real-time collaborative editing feature (with authorship info), Group Chat and File Revision History timeslider. Further explained in https://c9.io/site/blog/2013/10/new-collaboration/
Mostafa,
The Cloud9 IDE Developer behind that Collab
It depends on the purpose of the IDE. JavaWIDE provides a great IDE for introducing programming concepts for novice programmers at the beginning of their programming classes. JavaWIDE will probably never be used for professional programmers.
Koding has a real time collaboration tool (with a bunch of cool stuff) where you can import your projects really easy. It also has a free VM with root access. Definitely worth checking out. :)
I recently saw Compilr and It seems pretty decent. You can run it inside a browser, full collaboration work is supported and Its cross browser and you can run it on your devices as well.
Nice thing is that it also includes some basic courses for you to learn coding which is exactly what you are looking for :)
For an on-premise install (you don't depend on external servers/services ) you could try Eclipse + saros (http://www.saros-project.org/), saros depends only on XMPP but you could build your own server locally (http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/)
For web based collaboration tool on-premise too I've been developing this: https://github.com/juanitomint/Space_Editor
It's based on nodejs,Extjs,ace editor and git, contributors are welcome
Is it possible to use OLE Automation in Java? If not, why is it not possible in Java?
I'm looking to automate the exporting of excel spreadsheets in different format (ie, .csv etc...)
Thanks for the answers in advance :)
Recently (March 2013), an independent contributor added support for generic COM Automation to JNA, which is the last man standing in terms of native platform API integration from Java. JNA is still very actively maintained, unlike Jawin/JACOB/etc.
See here for an example of how it is used. The pre-cooked bindings to the Office APIs are very simple so far, but looking at the code, it seems very easy to use the COM Automation APIs (IDispatch, Variant, etc) to do late binding to almost any COM interface.
I would like to see, however, a more complete binding of the Office COM APIs, since they are by far the most often used COM API in the world. Maybe there could also be an "MSExcel2007.java", "MSExcel2010.java", etc. to cover the different API versions. So it's very much a work in progress, but JNA is now as generally useful for COM Automation as JACOB/Jawin, with the bonus that it's extremely actively maintained (as of April 2013).
You can use JACOB. But there will be some pain involved as it's not documented very well and the performance is not the best. It can also be hard to get it running correctly for you environment depending on which version of Windows you are targetting. I would definitely not use it if you are building a scalable web application. Another option would be Apache POI which has really come a long way from its early roots and is used in alot of production ready tools like JBoss Drools. If you decide to go with JACOB then I recommend you read this SO thread:
Is there a good reference for using OLE Automation (from Java)?
There is a library called JACOB that allows precisely what you're looking for. What do you mean by "from the Java API?" You mean from from the official J2SE packages? I'm not sure how to answer that other than to say that J2SE doesn't include libraries for every conceivable need under the sun, especially those that only work on a single operating system. That's why third party packages exist.
Commercial, but they seem to have a free Open-Source and Academic license...
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I am planning to build a simple document management system. Preferably built around the java platform. Are there are best practices around this? The requirements are :
Ability to upload documents
Ability to Tag documents
Version the documents
Comment on documents
There are a couple of options that I am currently considering. The first option would be a simple API on top of SVN or CVS and use a DB backend to track tags, uploader, comments etc
Another option is to use the filesystem. Version the documents as copies in a versions folder and work with filenames.
Or, if there is an Open non GPL'ed doc management system, we could customize it to our needs and package it in our application. Does anybody have any experience building something like this?
You may want to take a look at Content repository API for Java and the several implementations (some of them free).
Take a look at the many Document Oriented Database systems out there. I can't speak about MongoDB or any of the others, but my experience with Couchdb has been fantastic.
http://couchdb.apache.org/
best part of it is that you communicate with it via a REST protocol.
The best way is to reuse the efforts of others. This particular wheel has been invented quite a bit of times.
Who will use this and for what purpose?
I'm looking for 2 or 3 of the most common/industry wide used libraries for the Java platform for the creation of PDFs on the fly.
The one requirement I'm focusing on is the ability to use specific formatting such as page layout and font sizes and typefaces (this will be a dynamically created legal document with frustratingly specific type standards).
I'm not actually going to be the one implementing this (I'm not a Java developer), but am trying to get the ball running and need to pass along some things to have our dev team to start investigating.
I'm investigating iText at the moment, which seems to be a well established option. I'm not yet sure how robust/flexible the templating abilities are, though.
EDIT: I just realized that there's probably no one 'right' answer for this question so maybe htis is better as part of the Wiki.
iText is probably the best all around free tool.
PDFLib is another choice if you are willing to pay for the license. It has a bit more features and has a native implementation backing the Java API.
There is always FOP (from apache) if you are willing to deal with XSLT and XSL-FO, but I believe they haven't updated those engines in a while.
I agree that iText is a great tool. However, the current version of iText is not free if you intend to use it in a closed source project. See Wikipedia:
In the end of 2009, iText version 5 is released under Affero GPL license. This license is drastically different from the previous license that iText had been distributed under, in that it requires anyone using iText 5 under a free license to provide the users with the full source of their application. Projects that do not want to provide their source code are required to purchase a commercial license for a non-disclosed price or they cannot upgrade to iText 5.
However, you may still use iText 4 under the LGPL license.
Take a look at Apache FOP. Very powerful.
IText will probably serve most of your purposes. However, if you are looking to convert from rtf or doc to pdf, you can use a java plugin for open source tools like OpenOffice( openoffice.org)
Hope this is helpful,
R
iText is probably your #1 standard in this area. You might also consider JODReports or Docmosis since they can do template-based reporting using standard word processor documents as templates.
Have you considered http://jasperforge.org/