Hi, I am trying to make my code more efficient, so I was reading FOP documentation to find out what is said there about optimizing. the following is said about reusing objects in file http://xml.apache.org/fop/embedding.html :
*** > If FOP is going to be used multiple times within your application it may be useful to reuse certain > objects to save time. The renderers and the driver can both be reused. A renderer is reusable once >the previous render has been completed. The driver is reuseable after the rendering is complete and > the reset method is called. You will need to setup the driver again with a new OutputStream, > InputStream and renderer. *** How can I know in my Java code that the Driver.render method is done? When is Driver.reset method called? I am dynamically generating the XSL-FO document from XML and XSL documents. I am thinking that I could have a single class variable for each of my XSL stylesheets, and always use the same object instance when generating XSL-FO documents. Should I have the code that is calling method Driver.render inside a synchronized block to be thread-safe? I am not actually sure if I want to always have only one PDF document rendered at a time... has anyone found a good solution for this? ( in other words: does someone understand what the text i cited from FOP documentation means at practical (Java) level? :) ) Thanks, - Teemu
