How to: XDK10 and FOP 20.5 - this works

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Hi All
Let me share with you all how to get XDK 10 and FOP 20.5 working. Below are all the versions of files that you require:
XDK 10
I use all the .jar files from the /lib directory
FOP 20.5
fop.jar
avalon-framework-cvs-20020806.jar
batik.jar
xalan-2.4.1.jar
xercesImpl-2.2.1.jar
The next thing is that I rewrote the xsqlserializer.jar file and here is the code:
package oracle.xml.xsql.serializers;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.apache.fop.messaging.MessageHandler;
import oracle.xml.xsql.XSQLPageRequest;
import oracle.xml.xsql.XSQLDocumentSerializer;
import org.apache.fop.apps.Driver;
import org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.Logger;
import org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.ConsoleLogger;
* Tested with the FOP 0.20.3RC release from 19-Jan-2002
public class XSQLFOPSerializer implements XSQLDocumentSerializer {
private static final String PDFMIME = "application/pdf";
public void serialize(Document doc, XSQLPageRequest env) throws Throwable {
try {
// First make sure we can load the driver
Driver FOPDriver = new Driver();
// Tell FOP not to spit out any messages by default.
// You can modify this code to create your own FOP Serializer
// that logs the output to one of many different logger targets
// using the Apache LogKit API
Logger logger = new ConsoleLogger(ConsoleLogger.LEVEL_INFO);
MessageHandler.setScreenLogger(logger);
FOPDriver.setLogger(logger);
// Some of FOP's messages appear to still use MessageHandler.
MessageHandler.setOutputMethod(MessageHandler.NONE);
// Then set the content type before getting the reader/
env.setContentType(PDFMIME);
FOPDriver.setOutputStream(env.getOutputStream());
FOPDriver.setRenderer(FOPDriver.RENDER_PDF);
FOPDriver.render(doc);
catch (Exception e) {
// Cannot write PDF output for the error anyway.
// So maybe this stack trace will be useful info
e.printStackTrace(System.err);
The above defnitely works for me and should work for you too. Think of it as an early christmas present.
Best wishes
Richard

Answer 1

Hi, richardgossow
I used the similar code as yours and it worked in Jdev10.1.3.0.0 and ias 10.1.3.1.for FOP 0.20.5.
WhenI upgrade my Jdev from 10.1.3.0.0. to 10.1.3.3.0.4517, it still worked in Jdeveloper.
However, when I deployed the latter to ias 10.1.3.1 on Windows (64bit), it failed with
Oracle XML Developers Kit 10.1.3.1.0 - Production
XML-25022: Cannot load serializer class
Do you and anyone know why?
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