I just checked the list going back to when I had the problem this is what I found back then..
I thought I had posted, I discovered the issue, it was noclassdeffound errors but tomcat was swallowing them so I wasn't getting anywhere on debug, however when I took the code into a stand alone app it gave me the error, I was missing all sorts of jars that the previous version of fop I was using (something like 0.23 modified) wasn't needed, including xml-api-ext and Avalon framework. Kindest regards Theresa Forster Senior Software Developer