Rendering vs. Data integration, cons and pros?

Hi,
I I'm trying to figure out what are the advantages to render pdf and not to use data integration service, the list I have so far:
render to HTML, SWF.
render based on fragments
server side form scripts ? (not sure )
In case that those advantages are not so important why not use a free tool like iText to import and export data to XFA forms?
Please help me with this doubts,
Thanks!

The Form Data Integration (FDI) doesn't actually perform a render operation - it just sticks the data into the PDF object.  When the client (Acrobat or Reader) gets the PDF it will recognize that it needs to be refreshed and will take care of "re-rendering" the data into the PDF.  To the user this looks the same, but there are some consequences when doing operations server side.
If you use FDI to insert your data and then go to another server side operations, like Assembler to combine two documents, then your data may not be in the final document.  This is because many of the server side components expect that the PDF is fully rendered.  I've seen this with Output (the printed form has no data) and some others as well.
And no, FDI does not fire any script.  It also does not work with XDP documents (only PDF)
I believe that Adobe's official recomendation is that you use Forms (and not FDI) when merging data with a PDF template.

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