JDev ADF Faces and XML publisher integration

Question

Hi,
I have an ADF Faces / BC project which I want to integrate XML Publisher for reporting and output purposes.
Following this note by Deepak Vohra http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/vohra-jdev-xmlpub.html (which was incredibly helpful by the way)
So far it's looking very promising but I have a few unknowns with the design.
1. The database connection.
In the examples a JDBC connection is opened (and actually forgotten to be closed!). I would like to utilise the AM pooling mechanisim rather than a seperate open/close situation. How do i properly reference/use the pooled AM java.sql.Connection?
2. Output
The examples write the PDF (what i am using) to the file system. Is it possible to write this to the browser response stream using a JSP or servlet? My preference is NOT to produce PDF's on the middle tier file system if possible. Need some guidance here.
thanks and regards,
Brenden

Answer 1

1. The database connection.
In the examples a JDBC connection is opened (and actually forgotten to be closed!). I would like to utilise the AM pooling mechanisim rather than a seperate open/close situation. How do i properly reference/use the pooled AM java.sql.Connection?
To obtain JDBC connection from ApplicationModule refer
http://radio.weblogs.com/0118231/2004/01/30.html#a232
2. Output
The examples write the PDF (what i am using) to the file system. Is it possible to write this to the browser response stream using a JSP or servlet? My preference is NOT to produce PDF's on the middle tier file system if possible. Need some guidance here.
Output may be set to an OutputStream with the FOProcessor method
setOutput(java.io.OutputStream stream)