shwango! blog

part of my time has been occupied by a side project. wish it was web-based, but it was a java application – my first java application. i don’t like doing ui stuff – servlets are more my “cup of tea” – but i used some cool tech to accomplish the task. to create the printable report, i used the apache project’s fop (formatting objects processor) to take xml (generated by the application) and apply a stylesheet to generate a pdf which is both printed and emailed. the xsl template used both fop tags and svg tags, as well as xsl processing directives (for-each, etc.) which worked out quite nicely…