Hi,
I recently got this query for itext [1] that is maintained in Fedora by me. I've been
asked to provide a "JNI subpackage" [2]. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with
JNI.
This person wants to package pdftk [3], which is a c++ application. The original pdftk
code contains an old version of itext and it links to it statically. Meanwhile, the old
version of itext had licensing issues and it had been removed from Fedora almost 2 years
ago. But these issues got resolved recently and I packaged itext for Fedora once again.
Now the question is: Can we link pdftk dynamically to new itext we have on the system?
After some consultation in IRC, I've been told that JNI is not what we need in this
case. And a suggestion came up: Apparently we can use GCJ to do this job. But this will
require non-trivial hacking. Can anyone point me to some guidelines for this and/or give
me a head-start?
Thanks,
-oget
Refs:
[1]
http://www.lowagie.com/iText/download.html
[2]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471811
[3]
http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/