Re: [xsl] XSL-FO - Running FOP on the server

[Andrew Franz <afranz0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

J.Pietschmann wrote:

> craig webber wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to run FOP on the server?
>
>
> Yes. Lots of people do this reguilarly. However:
>
> > I'm amending my XML document on the server using ASP,
>
>                                                    ^^^
> The simplest way to use FOP from ASP is to call Java as command
> line application. This involves a significant startup overhead.
> Furthernmore, if your browser is IEx, you'll have to buffer the
> generated PDF in order to set the content-length header correctly,
> which is yet another nuisance.
(If the rest of the app is wedded to ASP)
How about running a FOP-specific Java servlet, such as Tomcat and 
redirecting *.pdf requests from IIS?