I dont have the email that originally started this thread,
so please disregard if my response is way off topic. We faced the issued
last year of how to present reports to our web users. We wanted the end
user to be able to use just a browser with no applets and also to keep the
downloads very small. The solution we found was generate a pdf file on
the as/400 (done with some free java classes) and have the jsp execute a very
small javascript function to do a window.open on the url pointing to the pdf
file. If the user has adobe acrobat reader installed, this works very
nicely and is slick. The pdf java classes can generate a 50 page pdf
file in about1-2 seconds on our system given a vector of strings, so the whole
process is real-time for the user. The pdf classes use the standard
Flate compression to reduce the size of the file. Most of our standard
reports end up being about 1K per page. No AWT, no remote AWT.
The pdf classses were used by Joe Pluta as the core of his
copy spool file to pdf utility. I think you can still get the beta
version off his www.zappie.net web site in
his javatorium. If not drop me an email. The source/classes are
free public domain.
On the applet issue, we spent four months totally removing
all applets from our application. We use servlets/jsp's on the as/400
exclusively and the user just needs a browser (and acrobat reader for
reports). There are just too many users out on the public internet that
have old/slow pcs, slow internet connections, weird configurations... I
see more and more developers dropping applets for applications used over the
public internet. Oh yeah, by the way, we get great looking web pages
with just html and limited use of javascript.
Alex Garrison
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 2:38
AM
Subject: RE: Printing with
websphere
We've already seen this solution. The problem is always the
same: all the tools
we have seen to do that use AWT,
so we need Remote AWT.
The only other alternative seems effectivly to be applets.
We'll do that if we don't
have other
solutions
Thanks
Gilles
-----Original Message-----
From: Pluta@nexgensoftware.com [mailto:Pluta@nexgensoftware.com]
Sent: mardi, 23. mai 2000 21:43
To:
JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Printing with
websphere
Gilles, the only way I can think of to effectively use
JavaServer Pages (by
that, I assume you mean
HTML-only) is to generate a temporary GIF or JPEG
image and then send the image to the user (to see this in action,
take a
look at http://www.mapquest.com). I personally don't know
how to do that,
but it will require some thinking on
your part. The only other alternative
is to
use an applet.
Joe
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