Hello Shawn, you can make FOP write to an ByteArrayOutputStream. By doing something like this:
ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); ...(driver+FOP stuff)... driver.setOutputStream(os); InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(os.getBytes()); .. now read from stream... Hope this helps, greetings, Patrick Dipl. Inform. Patrick Chaumette T-Systems ITS GmbH Service Prozesse Retail Hausanschrift: Fasanenweg 9, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Postanschrift: Postfach 100258, 70746 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Telefon: (0711)972-2437 Telefax: (0711)972-1949 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.t-systems.de > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Mai 2002 17:52 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: PDF from FOP to database as BLOB > > > > Hi, > > Currently we are dynamically creating our PDF documents using FOP in > real-time and displaying them on the browser without a problem. We've > handled the CPU intensiveness of FOP by limiting the number > of users that > can concurrently create a report to 1 or 2 (depending on the server). > > BUT - As the number of users requesting PDF reports on our application > scales up we'll need a better solution. Since our users can > wait for these > reports we've decided to run a nightly job to create them and > store the > PDFs in our database as a BLOB. That way during peak usage hours our > servers will only need to deal with returning the PDF to the browser. > > My question is, HOW, using FOP and JDBC can I get my PDF into > the database > as a BLOB. > The java.sql.PreparedStatement method setBinaryStream(int > parameterIndex, > InputStreamx, int length) requires an input stream - how can > I get this > from FOP? If I instead us the java.sql.PreparedStatement > method setBlob > (int i, Blob x) method - how can I create a BLOB from what I > have from FOP? > > > Any Ideas would be very helpful. > Thank You! > Shawn >
