Hi !

Seam 3 has Seam Reports, which is suited to produce reports on a sort
of implementations available.

Check it out at: http://seamframework.org/Seam3/ReportsModule

2012/8/31 Denis Forveille <[email protected]>:
> What thing we like in seam 2 is the pdf engine based on JSF components 
> taylored for iText
>
> As we are moving to CDI, we a re looking for an equivalent engine to produce 
> PDF reports
>
> Seam 3 does not seem to have such an engine ready
>
> Flyingsaucer (http://code.google.com/p/flying-saucer) is almost doing this 
> except that it uses plain JSF/faelets tags, not specific
> iText tags/components
>
> I'm thinking on writing such an engine, based on reusing the seam2 JSF-iText 
> tags/components and on the principle described here:
> http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/10/31/combine-facelets-and-flying-saucer-renderer.html
>
> ie:
> - write an xhtml report  with the seam 2 JSF/iText tags/components exactly as 
> in seam 2
>
> At runtime, have a filter that intercepts the request for such a PDF document 
> (based on extension or request parameter), forward the
> request to the JSF engine as a standard request to compose the response
>    -> the tags will generate a iText document and attach it  in a scoped 
> variable
> - the filter read the iText object, and read send it to the reponse object
> or
> use something similar to  what ios described here for rendering the response 
> programatically : http://www.bradchen.com/node/36
>
>
> This engine would obviously depends on JSF and iText, and maybe on CDI
>
> Does this already exist?
>
> WDYT?
>
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