Hello! I'd prefer CORBA. It's more robust than sending a http request and easier to support. CORBA is also supported in the current jdk. For the C++ side, take a look at the ACE / TAO project. It's an open source orb and available for many platforms.
Using CORBA also enables you to have a bidirectinal communication between the fop process and the client application. You can send the logger output to the client to show the state of the current fop processing ( page number, and so on ). It works for us and is already in use by some of our real world applications. Hope this helps. PS : You could set up a FOP - Server , a process that waits for CORBA requests and generates PDF or PCL output. This would also increase performance, since the java vm would not be loaded every request. This saves on slower machines in some cases more than 10 seconds!!!! -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Bertrand Delacretaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 29. November 2002 08:05 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Call upon FOP within a c++ application On Friday 29 November 2002 01:43, Amit Bhatnagar wrote: > Is it possible to call upon FOP with a c++ application? Should be possible using JNI, the Java Native Interface (info at java.sun.com). > If it isn't possible, is my only alternative to make a system call > and execute the FOP.bat? You could also use an HTTP-based interface along these lines: 1. C++ makes HTTP request to FOP servlet including a unique filename 2. FOP servlet in turn makes HTTP request to C++ to get the XSL-FO data, passing it the unique filename 3. C++ receives PDF from FOP Which is a nicely decoupled and language-independent interface. Hope this helps! -- Bertrand Delacrétaz (codeconsult.ch, jfor.org) buzzwords: XML, java, XSLT, Cocoon, FOP, mentoring/teaching/coding. blogspace http://www.codeconsult.ch/bertrand --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
