Print to PDF by Apache FOP: what are the prerequisites?

Hello

I'm actually looking for a way to print reports, and I have 2 questions:

(1) if I am not wrong there are three ways: BI Publisher, Apache FOP, and an another XSL - FO as Cocoon...

-> For budgetary reasons, we cannot use BI Publisher.
-> In addition, my company is the owner of the Oracle Standard edition, so I'm not even sure we can use Apache FOP: in each documentation FOP is deployed in App Server or Enterprise Manager, and we don't have those. OC4J seems installed on our server, but it may not work without application server...
--> So, Cocoon is the solution?

(2) we are on the Apex 4.0 installation. We want to be able to print interactive reports, with aggregations, and amounts. Is it possible and there are differences between the engines of report?

Thank you very much!

Fanny

Hello Fanny,.

(1) you should be able to deploy the Apache FOP for the OC4J standalone as well. It should certainly work on the long version, which is not yet OAS and therefore a license with your database as long as it is running on the same host.
If you plan to deploy this engine on another machine, you're probably better off with Cocoon on some open source J2EE Engine as GlassFish or Tomcat.

(2) it is possible to print PDFs to interactive reports including aggregations. Of course there are differences between the different print engines. But as long as you want just basic printing and any of the complex presentations, I have not too much care. However, if you need to create page layouts, you would assess probably some tools to generate presentations if you do not want to create xsl - fo in a text editor.

-Udo

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