I use Java Web Start to deliver a Java application embedding FOP and it works great. I consider a one-time 5M download to be small these days, compared to lots of other internet practices people frequently use (like downloading game demos). Besides, you can quickly surpass 5M in PDF downloads by clients generating PDF files server-side, particularly if you're using any SVG.
Rendering large FOP documents server-side (or client-side) is very resource-intensive, and it doesn't take much math to figure out that you will quickly need to have a number of servers to support any significant population of active users. For my purposes, the incremental cost associated with adding a new user under a server-side arrangement would exceed what I could charge them. Meanwhile, their CPUs would be sitting 99% idle waiting for the document to render on the server.... Patrick Rusk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
