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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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Install mod_jk

January 2, 2010 / posted in Fedora / No Comments

Use mod_jk to bridge apache and Jboss

mod_jk is an apache extension that you can use to redirect incoming http requests to an application server. It lets you configure multiple applications servers by virtual host urls, and provides a means of setting up load balancing preferences between application servers. It’s very useful because it lets apache do what it does best – serve up http requests. Well, its good at serving up html too but apache will usually do a much better job of handling load balancing that most application servers. Let the web server handle http, and let the…

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