Hi all, I'm working on an e-learning at a french university. We adopted fop the very same reason Jim has stated. But i also use iText as a hack for some special purposes (re-ordering/re-sizing/watermarking mostly) I think we also made this choice "for the future" as:
- first, we have a pure xml/xsl technology system (no transitiional xml sub-language to drive iText - second, we can use SVG (we have a nice grpahic designer and i can import SVG directly in my FO code) Hope this helps, if you have to choose one of these technologies for your project. Dref. --- Jim Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Our application is a servlet based web application. > We have adopted the MVC > approach. We found Cacoon over kill, so we > implmented our own frame work. > Our frame work requires all business components > produce XML. We then use > XSL:HTML to format HTML output for the browser. It > was only a natural next > step to use XSL:FO to generate PDF since we already > had XML being generated. > One of the real blessings of this approach is our > clients can customize the > look and feel of the application by changing the XSL > files without our ever > opening a Java source file. > > It was a BIG investment and learning curve up front > to take this approach, > but now that we are past that phase, the return on > the investment has > enabled us to justify the up front expense. Looking > back, I think it was a > vary sound decission. We are in a position where > adding WAP (WML) and a B2b > SOAP interface are a natural extension of our > framework, not a rewrite. > > Thank yous go to not only FOP, but Xalan and Xerces > for all the XML and XSL > support! > > Jim Urban > Product Manager > Netsteps Inc. > Suite 505E > 1 Pierce Pl. > Itasca, IL 60143 > Voice: (630) 250-3045 x2164 > Fax: (630) 250-3046 > > > > > > > At 08:58 PM 1/29/02 -0500, you wrote: > > >I would like to know why FOP enthousiast (I am > one) are using FO rather > > >than products such as Crystal Reports or other > such software (anyone > > >Jetfoms ?). Just for the fun of playing with new > technology ? > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.fr --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
