Software:Flying Saucer (library)
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| Operating system | Cross-platform |
|---|---|
| Type | XHTML / CSS renderer library |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer |
Flying Saucer (also called XHTML renderer) is a pure Java library for rendering XML, XHTML, and CSS 2.1 content.
It is intended for embedding web-based user interfaces into Java applications, but cannot be used as a general purpose web browser since it does not support HTML.
Thanks to its capability to save rendered XHTML to PDF (using iText), it is often used as a server side library to generate PDF documents. It has extended support for print-related things like pagination and page headers and footers.
History
Flying Saucer was started in 2004 by Joshua Marinacci,[1] who was later hired by Sun Microsystems. It is still an open-source project unrelated to Sun.
Sun Microsystems once planned to include Flying Saucer in F3,[2] the scripting language based on the Java platform which later became JavaFX Script.
Compliance
Flying saucer has very good XHTML markup and CSS 2.1 standards compliance, even in complex cases.[3][4][5]
See also
References
- ↑ Marinacci, Joshua (2004-06-14). "My new opensource project: Flying Saucer, an all Java XHTML renderer". http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2004/06/my_new_opensour.html. Retrieved 2008-06-29.
- ↑ Oliver, Chris (2006-12-14). "F3 and HTML". Archived from the original on 2013-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20131214055244/https://blogs.oracle.com/chrisoliver/entry/f3_and_html. Retrieved 2008-06-29. "We plan on incorporating the Flying Saucer Java XHTML renderer into F3 eventually"
- ↑ "Flying Saucer - Default branch". freshmeat.net. 2007-07-14. http://freshmeat.net/projects/flyingsaucer/. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ↑ Marinacci, Joshua (2007-07-14). "Flying Saucer R7 is out". http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2007/07/flying_saucer_r.html. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ↑ Guy, Romain (2007-07-16). "XHTML/CSS Rendering In Swing". http://www.curious-creature.org/2007/07/16/xhtmlcss-rendering-in-swing/. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
External links
- Flying Saucer Project Website on Github
- Generate PDF with Flying Saucer
- "Flying Saucer". http://freecode.com/projects/flyingsaucer/.
- Generating PDFs with Java, Flying Saucer and Thymeleaf (Part 1)
- Generating PDFs with Java, Flying Saucer and Thymeleaf (Part 2)
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