SVG also allows for better integration between text and graphics. Vincent Hardy, a senior staff engineer for Sun and member of the Batik team, said the beta is an important benchmark. Sun contributed the SVG generator to the open-source project. Hardy said Batik is a perfect example of when open-source projects make sense. The Batik 1.0 toolkit, named for the colorful Indonesian textile, can be used to manipulate SVG both on the client and the server.
Developers also can add custom extensions to the toolkit.
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