I didn't made any kind of benchmark. I just can say that I didn't have any performance problem with this. What iText gives you is complete flexibility and freedom for creating the type of pdf u want, with no considerable overload. of cuorse, IMHO.
-----Mensaje original----- De: Dror Matalon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: jueves, 10 de octubre de 2002 9:12 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: Report displaying and printing in JSP's Hi, On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:04:18AM +0200, ROLDAN, Gabriel raul wrote: > I am using iText (www.lowagie.com) pdf generator for creating > reports in my intranet with great success. How fast/slow is it to generate a report on the fly? Last I looke at it it seemed quite a bit slower than using solutions writen in C/C++ > > using confidential production data and images gathered from > an image map server, I can generate a pdf document writen directly > to the client via HTTP without the need of storing it in the server > filesystem, and the best, pdf documents are encrypted with 128 bit keys > and have permission just for printing. This permision thing is highly suspicious in my mind. I don't really know the mechanism, but it seems like if you're able to print it you could send it to a file or to anything else. Also, I'm curious, what is really the point of having permission just for printing? > > if this aproach seems interesting for you, feel free to contact me > at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'll help the most I can. > > Gabriel > > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Dror Matalon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Enviado el: jueves, 10 de octubre de 2002 1:09 > Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Asunto: Re: Report displaying and printing in JSP's > > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:34:54PM -0700, Steve Bang wrote: > > I haven't had a chance to try the following, but they look like > interesting > > options: > > > > For report generation: > > > > JasperReports > > http://jasperreports.sf.net > > > > JFreeReport > > http://www.object-refinery.com/jfreereport/index.html > > > Don't both of these rely on a *client* side java program to generate the > report? I also believe that JasperReports generates a class that needs to be > loaded for every report, which seems a little cumbersome in a JSP > environment. > > > > > For PDF generation: > > > > iText > > http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ > > > > Big Faceless Report Generator > > http://big.faceless.org/index.jsp > > > > > > Any comments on experience with these products would be appreciated. > > > > Steve > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Haseltine, Celeste [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:14 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Report displaying and printing in JSP's > > > > > > > > > I'm interested in knowing what options other people have used > > > successfully, > > > and not so successfully, to generate and display report > > > information and > > > format it for printer output in jsp/servlets. Our product is > > > a jsp/servlet > > > intranet application, and we would like to now add a report generation > > > feature for the management team. There will be numerous > > > types of reports, > > > and all will utilize production data contained in the > > > database. I've looked > > > into Crystal Reports, but it does have port conflict issues with our > > > application server JRUN 3.1. I know that XML format is great for > > > displaying, but I understand that it has limitations when it comes to > > > formatting the report for various types of printer output. Other than > > > looking into PDF format, does anyone else have any > > > suggestions/options that > > > they would like to recommend? > > > > > > My thanks in advance for any recommendations/advice. > > > > > > Celeste Haseltine, PE > > > MTL, Inc. > > > > > > ============================================================== > > > ============= > > > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: > > > "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > > > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set > > > JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > > > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > > > > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > > > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > > > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > > > http://www.jspinsider.com > > > > > > > > =========================================================================== > > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff > JSP-INTEREST". > > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST > DIGEST". > > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > > http://www.jspinsider.com > > -- > Dror Matalon > Zapatec Inc > 1700 MLK Way > Berkeley, CA 94709 > http://www.zapatec.com > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff > JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST > DIGEST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com -- Dror Matalon Zapatec Inc 1700 MLK Way Berkeley, CA 94709 http://www.zapatec.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". 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