Hi, Currently we are dynamically creating our PDF documents using FOP in real-time and displaying them on the browser without a problem. We've handled the CPU intensiveness of FOP by limiting the number of users that can concurrently create a report to 1 or 2 (depending on the server).
BUT - As the number of users requesting PDF reports on our application scales up we'll need a better solution. Since our users can wait for these reports we've decided to run a nightly job to create them and store the PDFs in our database as a BLOB. That way during peak usage hours our servers will only need to deal with returning the PDF to the browser. My question is, HOW, using FOP and JDBC can I get my PDF into the database as a BLOB. The java.sql.PreparedStatement method setBinaryStream(int parameterIndex, InputStreamx, int length) requires an input stream - how can I get this from FOP? If I instead us the java.sql.PreparedStatement method setBlob (int i, Blob x) method - how can I create a BLOB from what I have from FOP? Any Ideas would be very helpful. Thank You! Shawn
