Hi all, I'd like to share my experience to alternatives to FOP for generating PDF files in Cocoon, for people that has to deal with the same problems I've already had.
FOP gave me good output quality, but it was quite slow and used up the available memory with huge input data. So I started searching for alternatives, and found an open source project called iText (http://www.lowagie.com/iText) also used in other open source projects like JasperReports, that has given me excellent results in terms of speed and memory usage, over 10 times faster and 32 Mb of RAM versus 192 Mb, although I had to rewrite my app. I've written a custom Cocoon serializer that uses iText. iText is quite powerful, but sometimes you have to do some low level coding. -------- David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
