Re: [seam-dev] Ideas for a replacement of the seam 2 PDF tags/engine in a CDI/JSF 2.0 world?

Hi ! Seam 3 has Seam Reports, which is suited to produce reports on a sort of implementations available. Check it out at: http://seamframework.org/Seam3/ReportsModule 2012/8/31 Denis Forveille <denis.forveille(a)gmail.com&gt;: > What thing we like in seam 2 is the pdf engine based on JSF components taylored for iText > > As we are moving to CDI, we a re looking for an equivalent engine to produce PDF reports > > Seam 3 does not seem to have such an engine ready > > Flyingsaucer (http://code.google.com/p/flying-saucer) is almost doing this except that it uses plain JSF/faelets tags, not specific > iText tags/components > > I'm thinking on writing such an engine, based on reusing the seam2 JSF-iText tags/components and on the principle described here: > http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/10/31/combine-facelets-and-flying-... > > ie: > - write an xhtml report with the seam 2 JSF/iText tags/components exactly as in seam 2 > > At runtime, have a filter that intercepts the request for such a PDF document (based on extension or request parameter), forward the > request to the JSF engine as a standard request to compose the response > -> the tags will generate a iText document and attach it in a scoped variable > - the filter read the iText object, and read send it to the reponse object > or > use something similar to what ios described here for rendering the response programatically : http://www.bradchen.com/node/36 > > > This engine would obviously depends on JSF and iText, and maybe on CDI > > Does this already exist? > > WDYT? > > _______________________________________________ > seam-dev mailing list > seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev