I was trying to use their existing jsp architecture with their existing tags and such, but, I ended up doing it with a servlet. It worked out fine in the end.
Thanks everyone for your help. Brian On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 17:00, Amit Chawla wrote: > why dont u write ur code in servlet and configure in ur web.xml that > servlet as jsp and call it from your JSP submit or create it in ur > jsp... > > example of web.xml could be > <servlet> > <servlet-name>GeneratePDF</servlet-name> > <servlet-class>"Your package"/GeneratePDF</servlet-class> > </servlet> > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>GeneratePDF</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>../GeneratePDF.jsp</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > > here GeneratePDF is my servlet and its under some package here and i > configured my web.xml with above two enteries.. > > You can Call servlet just as a jsp... and this blank page issue will > be solved.. > > Otherwise create an object of servlet in ur jsp and call a function > and do everything in that function , that should also work.... > > I hope this would be easy and would solve your blank page issue. > > Regards > amit chwla > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Aaron > Wallace > Sent: Thu 1/13/2005 3:28 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Brian Burridge > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] PDF Generated is Blank > > > > > This is harder to do than it should probably be, mainly because the > JSP > will consistently try to send bits of whitespace (i.e. from between > the > JSP tags) to the JSP's output writer, no matter how carefully you try > to > eliminate any whitespace from between the JSP tags, while you want to > send binary data directly to the servlet's output stream. > > This should work with Jasper-based JSP engines: > > ... > <% > > response.reset(); > response.setContentType("application/pdf"); > response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "filename=foobar.pdf"); > > // send PDF using response.getOutputStream() as the output stream; > i.e. > // PdfWriter.getInstance(..., response.getOutputStream()); > > response.flushBuffer(); > > %> > ... > > JSP buffering should be enabled so that the call to response.reset() > will prevent any stray text/whitespace generated before this call from > being sent to the browser. > > While the above will work, you will probably get errors because, after > the flushBuffer() call, the JSP will try to send mote text/whitespace > via the output writer, which isn't allowed once binary data has been > sent. A quick hack workaround is to create a subclass of > (javax.servlet.jsp.)JspWriter in which all of its (many) methods > discard > their data, then assign it to 'out' after the flushBuffer call above: > > out = new NullJspWriter(); > > The above hack may not be necessary--in my experience, the PDF is > correctly sent to the client and the errors, while annoying, are > harmless. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Brian Burridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:22 AM > > To: iText > > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF Generated is Blank > > > > I'm using Tomcat for the JSPs. I would really rather use > > JSPs, because I'm supposed to be integrating iText into an > > existing website without changing the architecture, and they > > use JSPs for everything. They have tag libraries that do all > > the data iteration and I was hoping to reuse those as well. > > > > Can you give any direction as to how to tell Tomcat to serve > > a JSP as binary? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues > Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. > It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
