MLJAM shows PDF generation via FOP as one of the included sample use cases.
https://developer.marklogic.com/code/mljam It does all the serializing for you. -jh- On Sep 2, 2015, at 8:51 PM, Florent Georges <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > > Just wanted to point out that you should not have the start up overhead if > you wrap FOP in a servlet, as the JVM is not loading the classes over and > over again, it's done only once. > > From experience, the critical part is to connect the various components > properly (that is, the servlet HTTP layer and FOP). I've seen a lot of > examples on the web serializing XML as a String to parse it again, or saving > FOP result in a byte array to pass it as a result of the servlet, instead of > streaming properly between HTTP and FOP. > > Regards, > > -- > Florent Georges > http://fgeorges.org/ > http://h2oconsulting.be/ > > > On 2 September 2015 at 14:20, David Lee wrote: > I've done the same thing for PDFS. For a previous $mployeer I used a > locally running embedded tomcat server with a simple servlet that ran a > simple xmlsh script (could be any language) that ran the FOP processing and > then returned the PDF as a binary. > > If you need high throughput, its critical to not have to start heavyweight > processes for each invocation. Many FOP implementations are Java based which > have a high startup time (200ms+). > > That's fine for 10 jobs not 10,000 ... hence using a service that keeps the > FOP processor 'loaded'. > > For high performance, or maximizing licensing value you may want to move the > FOP processing off-server -- > > Modern alternatives may appropriate, such as a pool of Docker and/or web > services shared by all the ML servers to offload the FOP processing and scale > it independent of the ML processing needs. > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > David Lee > Lead Engineer > MarkLogic Corporation > [email protected] > Phone: +1 812-482-5224 > > Cell: +1 812-630-7622 > www.marklogic.com > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of vimal c > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 2:09 AM > To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Generate PDF from Marklogic > > > > Thanks Florent and David for your inputs. > > > > Regards, > > Vimal C > > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 8:20 PM, David Ennis <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've done something similar to what Florent suggests in the past with the > Java flying saucer Library (XML or XHTML + CSS2 = PDF). > > > > I think no matter how you wrap it up and what the details are, its the same > pattern used over and over with MarkLogic for external functionality - create > an HTTP service in the language of your choice to do the thing you want done > and post to that service. > > > > Kind Regards, > > David Ennis > > > > On 1 September 2015 at 16:43, Florent Georges <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > As far as I know, there is no built-in way. I think the usual way is to > use XSLT on MarkLogic to generate XSL-FO, and use xdmp:http-post() to send it > to an endpoint an XSL-FO processor listens to (typically Apache FOP, wrapped > in Cocoon or in an in-house Java HTTP endpoint). > > This setup is reasonably easy. I guess searching for "fop marklogic" > should give a few links about that technique. > > Regards, > > > > > > -- > > Florent Georges > http://fgeorges.org/ > http://h2oconsulting.be/ > > > > On 1 September 2015 at 16:00, vimal c wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Is it possible to generate .pdf file from marklogic? > > > > I see that we can convert a pdf document to xhtml files and parts by using > xdmp:pdf-convert. > > > > But Do we have any way in marklogic to create a .pdf file out of the xml > content saved in marklogic? > > > > > > Any idea would be really helpful. > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Regards, > > Vimal C > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > Manage your subscription at: > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > > -- > > Florent Georges > http://fgeorges.org/ > http://h2oconsulting.be/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > Manage your subscription at: > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > Manage your subscription at: > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > Manage your subscription at: > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > Manage your subscription at: > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
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