I've embedded FOP 0.93 in an Oracle AS 10g (9.0.4) Reports pluggable destination, which itself is implemented as a J2EE application. Therefore, FOP is called as part of the already-running J2EE environment.
The problem that I'm having is that the Oracle XML parser blows chunks and won't properly parse documents in order for FOP to work correctly. I have everything working properly as long as I put Xerces and Xml-apis in the pre-boot class path (e.g. "-Xbootclasspath^/p:...") and specifying Xalan as the TransformFactory (e.g. "... -Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=org.apache.xalan.processor.Transfor merFactoryImpl). However, although this configuration works perfectly, Oracle has specifically declared that it will not be supported. Basically if Xerces/Xalan ever blows up Oracle Reports, our enterprise's million dollar support contract is worthless. Soooooooooooo... Question: Is there any other way to force FOP to use the Xalan transformer factory without overriding it for the entire Oracle Reports application? I may even be allowed the time and resources to create a FOP patch in order to make this modification if required. As always, thank you in advance for your thoughts. Jeff
