I would agree with the last statement about a high performance commercial all Java FO->PDF. However, there is really no need. Would anybody be interested in working on FOP with payment leaving the licensing as is? This way everybody can benefit. Anybody with experience interested?
Patrick Lanphier The Artemis Group http://www.artemisgroup.com phone: 814-235-0444 fax: 800-582-9710 On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Savino, Matt C wrote: > We're using FOP in a production environment to render some management > reports and a very complicated lab report. We've had to limit the management > reports to about 2000 rows (~50 page PDF) because of FOP's memory issues > w/large PDFs. Also I worry about serious slowdown if we ever get 3 or 4 > users on the same instance of the app server all running a decent sized PDF > at once. Does anyone know if wrapping FOP in a session bean would allow me > to distribute processing around to unused servers or otherwise handle the > java.lang.outOfMemoryError better? (We're on Weblogic 6.1) > > I compared FOP to RenderX from XEP. RenderX was the only solution that > really mathces FOP's profile (XSL:FO based, java-based or at least platform > neutral, no extra servers to run or programs to install - if there are any > more out there, please post). For the report I was running, FOP was about 10 > times faster than RenderX. But from most accounts performance between the > two should similar. I figure there must be something particular about my > stylesheet that RenderX didn't like. So I called XEP to see what kind of > support my interest in purchasing their $5k/cpu product might garner. They > weren't very helpful but did say they were insanely busy. I have a feeling > if you could come up with a high-performing commerical all Java FO->PDF > engine, you'd be very rich very quick. > > > Matt Savino > > >
