Running the build with IBM Java 1.4.2 fails - xerces issue with XInclude. Please use Java 5.0 or later. To get the images into the PDF output, you must have the "Java Advanced Imaging" Library from Sun. The tooling will obtain this for you the first time it is run, but your Company may have other places than "Sun" to obtain this library from, perhaps under alternative licensing arrangements. If so, you can obtain the library from those places, unzip the archive, and put the two files: jai_codec.jar and jai_core.jar in the uima-docbook-tool project, under tools/jai-versions/jai-1.1.3/