Using FOP in an applet ?

[Bruno VERNAY <Br...@Proval.fr>]

Hi,

  What I would like to do is send XML to the browser client (MS-IE6, in the
case of our extranet, but not limited to.)
  There, show it on screen as html/css (already possible with XSLT and the
MS-XML dll.)
   and print it as PDF ... (Impossible for now, why didn't MS implement css
@page.)


Would it be a *solution* to embed FOP in an applet and use it on the client
to print PDF ?



PS : After some research, I didn't find anything about "FOP and Applet".
I know that it it possible to use FOP with Servlet, PHP and many Apache
project.
I know about WebGrabber, PdfLib, RenderX ...
(This means : I am not expecting people on this list to be at my service,
but I came to the point where I need help to continue.)

	Thanks.

Re: Using FOP in an applet ?

[Jeremias Maerki <je...@outline.ch>]

> Would it be a *solution* to embed FOP in an applet and use it on the client
> to print PDF ?


Maybe. I didn't try it but I don't see a reason that it shouldn't work
as long as you ensure that a Sun Java PlugIn is installed (Microsoft VM?
I don't think so.) and the application is running in an intranet. I
mention the latter because the loading times for FOP over the internet
will be a killer:
fop.jar: 1.8MB
batik.jar: 2.2MB
jimi-1.0.jar: 445MB
etc.

It's probably better if you provide a server-based solution for creating
your documents. On the other side, you always have to transfer the
documents, too. And they may be big...

Cheers,
Jeremias Märki

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Re: Using FOP in an applet ?

[Cyril Rognon <cr...@objectiva.fr>]

Embeding FOP in an applet would make your applet humongous. It would only 
be possible in a LAN configuration with high band-width.

I think the best way would be to allow a server side pdf generation with 
fop that would be used by your applet.

Hope that helps

Cyril
At 16:03 06/02/2002 +0100, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>   What I would like to do is send XML to the browser client (MS-IE6, in 
> the case of our extranet, but not limited to.)
>   There, show it on screen as html/css (already possible with XSLT and 
> the MS-XML dll.)
>    and print it as PDF ... (Impossible for now, why didn't MS implement 
> css @page.)
>
>Would it be a *solution* to embed FOP in an applet and use it on the 
>client to print PDF ?
>
>
>PS : After some research, I didn't find anything about "FOP and Applet".
>I know that it it possible to use FOP with Servlet, PHP and many Apache 
>project.
>I know about WebGrabber, PdfLib, RenderX ...
>(This means : I am not expecting people on this list to be at my service, 
>but I came to the