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The conf directory, JBoss v5.x

August 10, 2010 / posted in Jboss / 2 Comments

Configure what you need

So you’re ready to configure some JBoss files? Great, lets have a look at the conf directory. The jboss/server/<configured instance>/conf directory is where you’ll find the majority of the configuration files for your jboss instance. For most deployments, the majority of these folders and files will remain untouched as they default to usable configurations. In this article we’ll go over the more practical configurable files, while leaving the really low level configurations alone. 

`-- conf
    |-- bootstrap/
    |--|-- bindingservice.bean
    |   `-- META-INF
    |   |    `-- bindings-jboss-beans.xml *
    |   |-- aop.xml
    |

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Apache XSL-FO’ sho v1.0

August 2, 2010 / posted in Java / No Comments

Transforming XML into PDFs.. and stuff

If you’ve ever been tasked with providing PDF documents via xsl, you’ve surely done some homework and shopped around for viable third party libraries. Some are good, some are great and rightly so charge a price, and some are just flat out incomplete or shanty in their documentation. It’s not a knock on anyone, its just a fact well known to open source developers. Historically what has been missing is an open standard for pdf generation, and possibly other output formats.

Enter XSL-FO: XSL Formatting Objects is an open standard for formatting documents in…

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