RE: RPG and Web.. (was Using OO concepts in RPG)

["Haas, Matt" <Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Instead of FOP (which has scalability issues), take a look at something called 
Root River (I think). It's still Java but it has a much nicer interface and 
doesn't require all of the external transformations that FOP does. Root River 
isn't free but it's cheap ($250 or so per developer). I haven't done anything 
with it personally but the person here who is currently developing with it 
isn't having any problem with it (which says a lot for how easy it is to use 
given this person's problems doing most tasks).

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: sublime78ska@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:sublime78ska@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 4:52 PM
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Subject: Re: RPG and Web.. (was Using OO concepts in RPG)


I looked at the FOP stuff.  I'm always looking for a better way to create PDF's.
 Currently, my pdf's are created with cpysplf and is handled as a constant in
the pdf.  Works, but makes the pdf extremely large.  And it's child's play to
change the data with notepad.

FOP, which is at version 0.2 something, sounds great for a java environment. 
I'd have to have a good working knowledge of DOM, xml, xslt, java, and probably
a few other things before I could start to use FOP effectively.  Then I'd need
to learn xml-fo.  But in the long run, it looks to be a much better way to
create pdf's. 

I'm going to pursue this further when I do my hobby programming ;-) but I don't
see how this will help a programmer like me who is required to use rpg or C.
Well, it could help an rpg programmer reduce his workload (by giving away work
to a java programmer.)


Phil



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