Esciurus - Java API for .epub format

[b.wolterding]

I would like to notify you of an Open Source implementation of OPF and OCF: Project Esciurus. It provides a Java API for access to .epub files.

The project actually aims at a desktop application for collecting e-books and scientific publications, and is currently far from being finished. However, it includes a back end API in Java for read and write access to Epub containers. This API is already functional and has been released in a first version. It contains support for OPF 2.0 and OCF 1.0 structures, but no direct handling of OPS or NCX.

This implementation will be mainly of interest to developers who want to create (or read) Epub files programmatically, for example in batch data conversion.

A sample console application is provided that allows to package content files from the file system into Epub format. Written in Java, it should run on Linux, Windows, and Mac likewise (though Mac has not been tested).

Further information and download instructions can be found on the project website: http://www.esciurus.org

The program is released under the GPL.

[Alvin]

Anybody can tell me the reason ? thanks !