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Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:07:29 +0200
From: Rene Gielen <gielen@it-neering.net>
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Subject: Re: [S2] Design Advice Needed
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You should definitely have a look into the struts2-jasperreports-plugin
- both for checking out how to write own results and evaluating if you
might want to use jasper over FOP, since full s2 result support is
already available for jasper.

The plugin is part of the struts2 source distribution.

Regards,
Rene

Hoying, Ken schrieb:
> I could use some advice from some folks with more experience and
> knowledge of Struts2 than I to assist me in determining the correct way
> (or lay out some viable options) to design a solution for the following
> senario:
> 
> We need to generate a PDF report real time based on data in a database
> that is available for download.  What we believe that we would like to
> do is utilize FOP (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/) and use a JSP
> page to actually generate the formatting objects and then run the
> formatting objects through the FOP processor to generate and stream the
> PDF back to the user.  
> 
> However, we are not real sure how to implement this in Struts2.  How do
> we invoke the JSP page and then get access to the results?  Do we just
> use the stream result type and then use a http call to the JSP as the
> input source?  This would seem like it would not be optimal from a
> performance standpoint, as we are making another http call to get the
> formatting objects from the jsp.  It also adds the complexity of passing
> security credentials in the call.  Or do we need to somehow create or
> own result type and if so how do we get those JSP results?  I have not
> really found any good documentation or example on writing your own
> result types.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
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