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

[Denis Forveille]

Yes there is

But what I'm mostly talking about here is the JSF/Facelets tag lib for rendering pdf documents based on more specific "PDF oriented 
tags" that the generic JSD/Facelets more "web oriented"  sdtandard tags (this is what flying saucer do)

IMHO seams 3 does not have that, or maybe I missed it? And I don'T see any CDI-extension project provides this as thi is more a 
facelets taglib than a rendering engine..

Le 2012-08-31 11:26, George Gastaldi a écrit :
> 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 at gmail.com>:
>> 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-saucer-renderer.html
>>
>> 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?
>>
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