Regarding FOP

Hi,
I know this is not the right forum to post my fop question. if, someone can point me to right direction or can help would really appreciate.
I'm trying to setup fop environment on windows xp machine. I thought I did set up FOP correct but when i run one of the sample which converts xml to pdf I keep getting errors. I'm using fop-0.92beta.
Below is the erro that i get when i run XML2PDF
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.ibm.bsf.BSFManager
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xalan.extensions.ExtensionHandler.getClassForName(Extensio
nHandler.java:136)
at org.apache.xalan.extensions.ExtensionHandlerGeneral.<clinit>(Extensio
nHandlerGeneral.java:140)
at org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemExtensionDecl.runtimeInit(ElemExtensio
nDecl.java:329)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transformNode(Transforme
rImpl.java:1239)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.run(TransformerImpl.java
:3070)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Could not initialize BSF manager
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transformNode(Transforme
rImpl.java:1269)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.run(TransformerImpl.java
:3070)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Could not initialize BSF ma
nager
at org.apache.xalan.extensions.ExtensionHandlerGeneral.<init>(ExtensionH
andlerGeneral.java:227)
at org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemExtensionDecl.runtimeInit(ElemExtensio
nDecl.java:329)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transformNode(Transforme
rImpl.java:1239)
... 2 more
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Could not initialize BSF manager
at org.apache.xalan.extensions.ExtensionHandlerGeneral.<init>(ExtensionH
andlerGeneral.java:227)
at org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemExtensionDecl.runtimeInit(ElemExtensio
nDecl.java:329)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transformNode(Transforme
rImpl.java:1239)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.run(TransformerImpl.java
:3070)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
I have set bsf in classpath provided it throws me this error.
Thanks for your help.
Message was edited by:
agammehta

Hello,
For PDF printing on this scale you would probably be much better off looking at using Oracle Reports.
The XML-XSLT-FOP solution we created is geared more to provding a PDF download to a user during an active HTML DB session.
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i assume that the default PDF printing is working, but that you want to create some better looking reports and therefore use a different non-generic XSL-FO.
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I have install the OC4J with Apache FOP for printing PDF Files from Apex. All near work good, I have some problems with ORMI server, but sometimes it work good.
My question is, when I call the the OC4J from Apex it work good and open the Adobe Acrobat and show the PDF file. But I want manage this file, I want take it and can work with it . From where I can read it?
Regards everybody.

Not, I must to be wrong. I think that PDF files that I see in /tmp directory was store by the browser download or by the PDF reader application, not by OC4J & FOP.
I start Enterprise Manager Apliccation Server Control of OC4J and in the property settings of FOP application I see that the temporal directory was /temp (and this directory dont exist in my server) I change this with a new temporal directory, but after stop and restart HTTP Server and OC4J, and send to print a new report nothing was in this directory, it was empty.
Now I think Im more near solution, but not find yet.
Regards.

Generating PDF file using FOP API in Web Dynpro

Hi experts,
I would like to generate PDF files from a WebDynpro application without using Adobe Interactive forms.
I think that I can export context data to XML stream and then apply XSLT transformation to produce XSLFO format and then pass it to xlfo processor i.e FOP to generate the PDF file.
Has someone already try this way of generating PDF files?
Is it a good way of processing ?
Thanks in advance.
Thomas.

hi Thomas,
You can make use of the iText API to create pdf documents through webdynpro.
For this you'll have to download the Itext api jar file.
Right click your webdynpro project include this jar file using the 'add external jar files'.Now you'll be able to make use of this api in your webdynpro project.
http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/iText/ .
The above link will help you in using iText API.
hope this one helps you.
Regards,
Rahul.

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