Re: [S2] Design Advice Needed

When I used XSLFO (maybe 3-4 years ago) it was really a pain. I can't see how it could have gotten any better - without a visual designer anyway. Have a look at http://www.eclipse.org/birt (Birt) - It can generate PDF's, export data, has a good designer etc. (also if you are thinking abou

RE: [S2] Design Advice Needed

Having used FOP briefly, I would add only one thing. It is generally considered a good practice to generate traditional XML first, then transform your data to XSLFO using a transform (pardon me if I am getting the terms wrong). Basically, create your XML data, then have an XSL file that transforms

RE: [S2] Design Advice Needed

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 8:07 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [S2] Design Advice Needed 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

Re: [S2] Design Advice Needed

I suppose there is a lot of other way to generate pdf with struts2. Certainly a plugin. But I don't know how it works. However, to invoke a jsp and get the result in your action, you can use a requestDispatcher to obtain the resut of a jsp execution. Here is something I already done with stru

Re: [S2] Design Advice Needed

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. Re