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Hi all,
I am looking into some options of integrating PDF Printing to our APEX application.
So far I've managed to have Apache FOP and Tomcat+Cocoon working.
Has anybody tried to have PDF printing capabilities with GlassFish as web server? If so, are there any hints/documents available out there?
Kind Regards,
Ana

Hi all,
Here's what I have done so far is:
1. Set up GlassFish App Server - all went OK
2. Connect to admin console: http://host:4848/
3. Navigate to WebApplications then deploy fop.war from apex install (however it is not possible to set Context Root to null as it gets set with "fop")
4. Next in APEX set the following :
Host: localhost
Port: 8080
Print Server Script: /fop/apex_fop.jsp
I am getting many errors when I try to generate a report to Word, one of which I am pasting below:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: PWC6033: Unable to compile class for JSP
PWC6199: Generated servlet error:
[javac] E:\Kits\GlassFish\glassfish\domains\domain1\generated\jsp\j2ee-modules\fop\org\apache\jsp\apex_005ffop_jsp.java:10: package oracle.xml.parser.v2 does not exist
[javac] import oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLDocument;
I think what I need is to use a different fop.war (as the one in APEX is not suited)
Has anybody tried this before?
Thank you,
Ana-Maria
Edited by: Ana-Maria on 16.10.2008 05:03

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