I'm having issues calling the FopFactory.newInstance() method. It's basically a cut and paste from the example I found on Apache's site
-- Error -- ROOT CAUSE: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/xmlgraphics/util/Service at org.apache.fop.util.ContentHandlerFactoryRegistry.discover(ContentHandle rFactoryRegistry.java:102) at org.apache.fop.util.ContentHandlerFactoryRegistry.<init>(ContentHandlerF actoryRegistry.java:47) at org.apache.fop.apps.FopFactory.<init>(FopFactory.java:75) at org.apache.fop.apps.FopFactory.newInstance(FopFactory.java:165) at MyFop.render(MyFop.java:75) -- Code -- public void render(){ try { // configure fopFactory as desired 75: FopFactory fopFactory = FopFactory.newInstance(); FOUserAgent foUserAgent = fopFactory.newFOUserAgent(); // configure foUserAgent as desired // Setup output OutputStream out = new java.io.FileOutputStream(this.pdf); out = new java.io.BufferedOutputStream(out); try { // Construct fop with desired output format Fop fop = fopFactory.newFop(MimeConstants.MIME_PDF, foUserAgent, out); // Setup XSLT TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(this.xslt)); // Set the value of a <param> in the stylesheet transformer.setParameter("versionParam", "2.0"); // Setup input for XSLT transformation Source src = new StreamSource(this.xml); // Resulting SAX events (the generated FO) must be piped through to FOP Result res = new SAXResult(fop.getDefaultHandler()); // Start XSLT transformation and FOP processing transformer.transform(src, res); } finally { out.close(); } System.out.println("Success!"); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(System.err); System.exit(-1); } } Dan