The DITA Open Toolkit, or dita-ot for short, is a set of Java-based, open source tools that provide a "reference implementation" for processing DITA maps and topical content.  The home page of the DITA Open Toolkit is http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/.

This article provides resources and ideas for how to use the Toolkit at your site or with your products that support DITA.

outline:

• suggestions for a low-end repeatable process
• best practices for including toolkit components in products
• how users can update the toolkit between your product upgrades
• the role of plugins
• contributing to the DITA-OT project
• about licenses
• more...