generate report in pdf format through a JSP page

[sanskriti agarwal]

I need to generate report in pdf format through a JSP page. How can i do it ?

[Vishwanath Krishnamurthi]

Hi Sanskriti,

Check out iText API. I think that would help you in creating "on the fly" pdfs.

[William Brogden]

The other major open source PDF document creation toolkit is the Apache FOP project.

You should NOT think of this as a JSP problem. Your JSP might be involved in creating a form to get parameters and providing a link to download the finished document, but thats it.

There are lots of details to iron out first. Put your PDF creation in a plain Java object which can be tested outside the servlet/jsp environment.

Bill

[Vishwanath Krishnamurthi]

Check out this tutorial

[sanskriti agarwal]

Thanks for so helpful and fast replies.

I used iText.jar for PDF generation but now i am getting this error ...

java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: ggs/erm/beans/setup/roled/RolesHome (Unsupported major.minor version 48.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java(Compiled Code))
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java(Compiled Code))
at com.ibm.ws.classloader.CompoundClassLoader._defineClass(CompoundClassLoader.java:432)
at com.ibm.ws.classloader.CompoundClassLoader.findClass(CompoundClassLoader.java:392)
at com.ibm.ws.classloader.CompoundClassLoader.loadClass(CompoundClassLoader.java:248)
at com.ibm.ws.classloader.EJBJarClassLoader.preloadInterfaces(EJBJarClassLoader.java:55)
at com.ibm.ws.classloader.ClassLoaderManager.lookupClassLoader(ClassLoaderManager.java:239)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.Server.getClassLoader(Server.java:867)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.EJBEngine.addEjbModule(EJBEngine.java:381)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.Server.startModule(Server.java:608)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.StandardServer.initializeModules(StandardServer.java:321)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.StandardServer.initializeRuntime0(StandardServer.java:349)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.Server.initializeRuntime(Server.java:885)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.StandardServer.main(StandardServer.java:519)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.ibm.ws.bootstrap.WSLauncher.main(WSLauncher.java:158)
at com.ibm.etools.websphere.tools.runner.api.ServerRunnerV4$1.run(ServerRunnerV4.java:56)
and it is even not starting Application....What should i do? I have jdk1.5 installed .and iText is 1.5.2 version.

[Martijn Verburg]

You're getting a JDK/JRE version conflict. You'll want to make sure that you're compiling your code with the same JDK (or at least have the compatibility settings on)

[Ulf Dittmer]

As an alternative to iText you might want to check out the JasperReports library. PDF is one of the output formats it supports.

[sanskriti agarwal]

Do JasperReport Library work for jdk1.4 or older versions.

[Ulf Dittmer]

The "JasperReports Datasheet" on the Jasper home page answers that.

[binu narayanan]

If you are using Netbeans IDE then better go for Jasper reports --iReports