The ten foot pole comment wasn't meant to reflect on the quality of FOP (which I have heard good things about), but more about the problems of integrating in a JDK 1.2 library to a managed winform application. That is what I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole :)
This seems like a perfect place for a web service, where I could call FOP on an Apache server and have it return a PDF, RTF, or whatever else I need. As for the managed FO, what are the licensing issues in converting the FOP code from Java to C#? I assume FOP is GPL, but I have no idea what that means as far as language translation goes. Erick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phill Tornroth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 8:36 AM Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Using XML/XSLT to generate WinForm reports > Ok, not with a ten foot pole.. Seriously? Apache's FOP is amazing, we've > been working with it for documentation and reporting for a over a year now. > I'm very much planning on using it in our .NET project too. > > On a side note, I specifically asked Mr. Box (and maybe he can comment > further if he's reading) about the lack of XSLT:FO.. I can't quote him, but > he essentially told me that XSLT wasn't something Microsoft finds all that > valuable. > > I'd LOVE to see more FO implementations. It's a really powerfull tool. If > someone starts a managed FO project.. let me know. > > ~Phill > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erick Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 5:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DOTNET] Using XML/XSLT to generate WinForm reports > > > I would really like to use XML and XSLT to generate reports for viewing in a > WinForm application. However, I can't find a good solution to show the > resulting report. It seems like XML-FO with a PDF or RTF output format would > be best, but all the projects out there are Java, which I don't want to > touch with a 10 foot pole. I could embed a WebBrowser Ax control and show > the report as HTML, but that doesn't have a lot of appeal for me, mainly due > to the interop. Can anyone think of a better solution? > > On a related note, it seems like someone with some Java knowledge could port > these over to C# fairly quickly (J# -> IL -> C#). Is anyone moving Java > projects to C# like this? I would do that for jfor if I know my way around > Java better. > > Erick > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
