FYI - we use FOP in an online production app to deliver on-demand print verions of our managment reports and lab reports. Our clients (drug companies) use the app to log on and see how their clinical trials are going. Luckily we haven't had much demand for large (50+ pages) PDFs or many medium-sized reports being run concurrently. If this demand ever does appear, we know we would have a major performance issue on our hands. We would have to create a task-scheduler to run larger reports during off-hours.
We did test RenderX's product, XEP, and generally found performance the same or worse than FOP. Support was really spotty as well. One report took about 10 times longer on XEP than FOP. I emailed their sales address and made it clear that only chance these guys had for a sale was to help me figure out what was causing this gap. After a week or so wait, the president of the company called and told me to call tech support, but not to tell them he told me to call because "they don't like that". Tech support finally said they couldn't help me. At $5000/CPU (not even purchased yet!) I was expecting a little more. It was kind of surreal. IMO anyone who thinks you are guranteed to get any kind of support after the contract is signed is living in the past. There are good companies out there (I would put BEA at the top of the list), but don't assume you're going to get top-notch support just because you spend some $$$ or sign a maintenance contract. I hope I don't sound too much like a commercial for FOP, but given this experience I'll take an open-source project with a dedicated user and dev community over a sketchy dotcom-ish company any day. Matt Savino > -----Original Message----- > From: Holk, David A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 9:37 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: FOP in production app > > > Is anyone using FOP in a production app? > > Should I expect a commercial product like XEP or XSLFormatter > to be more > robust in a production application? > > Any experiences/comments appreciated. > > David Holk > > > LEGAL NOTICE > Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is > confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the > addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is > unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or > copying of the contents of this E-mail or any action taken > (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be > unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the > sender immediately. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
