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Siegfried Goeschl wrote:

Hi Dirk,

I do not know the details of your application

+) why do you not return the PDF directly as response of the HTTP request or make a redirect

+) buffering the file on a disk is not always a bad idea - many people use an Apache in front of their application server, store the document on disk, return a redircet so the Apache can deliver the PDF to the client. This makes sense if you have dozens of client request huge documents therefore tying up all resources of your precious application server

+) in the case of periodic clean up - this can be also done easily in your application using the Quartz scheduler

Cheers,

Siegfried Goeschl

Dirk Doerflinger wrote:

Hello,

I'm doingt this at the moment, I'm using Velocity (built into the Intrexx
portal server) and a few self made java classes using iText.
Actually, it's quite simply:

In Intrexx, there is a framework which allows me to introduce external java classes (.jars so to say) into the velocity context. I have no idea how to
do that in clear velocity but it's described in the VTL docs IIRC.

My PDF creation class consists of some methods to add different stuff to the PDF, like addHeader( String hdr ) which do nothing but pass the content that
should go into the header into private variables of the java object.

There's also a method which initializes the PDF just like always in iText.

In VTL some of my code looks like this (the data is in an array I got from
an SQL DB which doesn't matter atm):

## initialize my object (aka call the constructor)
#set($ausgabe = $PDFGenerator )
#set($basispfad =
"E:\\Xtreme\\org\\intrexx\\external\\htmlroot\\pdfserver\\" )

## put some data in some variable for usage in the pdf
#set( $vorname = $ma_data.get($ma_headers.indexOf( "XVORNAME" )) )
#set( $nachname = $ma_data.get($ma_headers.indexOf( "XNAME" )) )
#set( $telefon = $ma_data.get($ma_headers.indexOf( "XTELEFON" )) )
#set( $telefax = $ma_data.get($ma_headers.indexOf( "XTELEFAX" )) )
#set( $email = $ma_data.get($ma_headers.indexOf( "XEMAIL" )) )

## initialize the PDF object with the path ("$basispfad") where the pdf ## should be saved and in my case with an article number for the name of the

## pdf. The filename (which is created from the article number and a random
## number within the java object is given back for later use
#set($dateiname = $ausgabe.initLS( $basispfad, $artikelnummer ) )

## put some content into my object
#set($ls3 = $ausgabe.setSachbearbeiter( "$vorname $nachname" ) )
#set($foo = $ausgabe.setEmail( $email ) )
#set($foo = $ausgabe.setTelefon( $telefon ) )
#set($foo = $ausgabe.setTelefax( $telefax ) )

## do the output...
#set($ls4 = $ausgabe.createLS() )

## give the user a nice uri where he/she can download the pdf
<p><a href="http://pdfserver/$dateiname"; target="_blank">$dateiname</a></p>


The last part is IMHO the worst because the pdf is written to a path on the
webserver and a scheduled task clears that path from time to time. If
anybody can come up with a better way, like sending the pdfdirectly to the
browser etc., feel fine to tell me how.

Hope that helps,
cheers,
DD

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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. September 2005 03:56
An: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
Betreff: [iText-questions] RE: generating pdf through the Velocity

Hello,
Im wondering, if anyone have done any program to output pdf from the
http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/
if there is, can you able to help me through how it works or some example
codes regards this,

thanks
dilan





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