----- Original Message ----- From: "Erick Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 14:22 Subject: Re: Using XML/XSLT to generate WinForm reports
> 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. yup > > 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. no issues; all you have to do is follow the apache licensing terms for mentioning their contrib. Course if you fork you double your maintenance efforts; getting it to work on J# may be another tactic As an aside, Ant 1.5 (due to hit beta in a week or two) now has a WsdlToDotnet wrapper round wsdl.exe, to go with the CSC task, which now does dependency checking. I had need of a bit of interop testing, see. -steve You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
