"jgilbert" wrote : I have the seam-pdf functionality working in my application. Now I want to have a background process create PDFs periodically. Currently I am using commons-httpclient to call out and back into my app and handle the redirect to create a PDF. | | It works but does anyone have a better way to do this? I'd like to know it too. But if you are simply sending PDFs by email here is a very elegant solution: http://docs.jboss.com/seam/1.2.1.GA/reference/en/html_single/#d0e8925 anonymous wrote : And it gets even better, you can attach a Seam generated PDF, or any standard JSF view, just by wrapping a <m:attachment> around the normal tags you would use: | | <m:attachment fileName="tiny.pdf"> | | <p:document> | | A very tiny PDF | | </p:document> | | </m:attachment> I must say that I didn't try it myself yet. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4038249#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...