Error while Running FOP

[Kirti Velankar <Ki...@Sun.COM>]

Hi Max,

Thanks for the quick reply.

(1) Downloads
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About the running FOP problems:

I downloaded the following files for FOP from the URL http://xml.apache.org/dist/fop/ 
1. Fop-0.18.1-DEV-src.tar.gz
2. fop-bin-0_17_0.jar
3. fop-uml.zip

Do I need to get something else?

(2) Variables:
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Classpath:
According to the documentation on the FOP site, I do not need to set the classpath.
But this confuses me as otherwise how will it get the class files?
( As I just wish to use it , the doc. says :
If you only want to use Fop, you don't need to build it. A fop.jar comes with the distribution.)

Java_Home :
This contains the path for JDK 1.3.

here are the contents of my fop directory:
./                       Fop-0.18.1-DEV-src.tar   fop-uml.zip
../                      hello.xsl
Fop-0.18.1-DEV/          fop-bin-0_17_0.jar       sample.xml

(3) Running as a command-line application:
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When I give the command Fop -d -xml sample.xml -xsl hello.xsl -pdf me.pdf
It gives me the error:
Fop: Command not found

And this is perfect as it does not have any executable here.

(4)Running as a java program:
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Then I tried to run the Fop.java from fop/Fop-0.18.1-DEV directory as
java Fop -xml sample.xml -xsl hello.xsl -pdf me.pdf
It gave me the error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Fop

Note: I ran the build.sh and I had not got any kind of error.

What is going wrong? Does anyone have any inputs? 

Thanks--
Kirti

> From: "Max Dunn" <ma...@siliconpublishing.com>
> To: <fo...@xml.apache.org>, "Kirti Velankar" <Ki...@Sun.COM>
> Subject: RE: Where to find documentation for beginners?
> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:30:41 -0700
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> A good tutorial on FO is at
> http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible/updates/15.html
> 
> Dave Pawson has some XSLFO coverage at:
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3.html
> 
> Including a "gentle introduction".
> 
> Cocoon uses FOP in a servlet environment:
> http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/index.html
> 
> There is a chapter of Brett McLaughlin's book (Java and XML) about using
> Cocoon, FO, and FOP, online at:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxml/chapter/ch09.html
> 
> But you should definitely get your classpath issue resolved, it is important
> to test these things.
> 
> Max
> www.siliconpublishing.org/
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirti Velankar [mailto:Kirti.Velankar@Sun.COM]
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 2:05 PM
> To: fop-dev@xml.apache.org
> Subject: Where to find documentation for beginners?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to FOP. Where can I find information such as what is FO? Any
> tutorials etc.? How to use it in a servlet?
> I saw in examples directory. BUt there are some problems with my classpath
> and I can not run neither examples nor FOP as a command-line application.
> Your help is appreciated.
> 
> -Kirti
> 
> 
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Kirti Velankar.
Sun Microsystems,
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