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Re: use case for ERPDFWrapper?
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  • Subject: Re: use case for ERPDFWrapper?
  • From: Theodore Petrosky <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 16:00:35 -0800

Is there a reason you stayed away from Jasper Reports? I did a small invoicing system and Jasper Reports worked great. I've used it in both D2W and regular Wonder apps.

Ted
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On Fri, 1/16/15, Ray Kiddy <email@hidden> wrote:

 Subject: use case for ERPDFWrapper?
 To: "WebObjects Development" <email@hidden>
 Date: Friday, January 16, 2015, 3:29 PM


 Does anyone have a use case for the ERPDFWrapper classes? I
 am not
 seeing, for example, package-level javadoc that might
 explain this.

 The reason I ask is that I recently had to generate PDF
 invoices for an
 order system and the conversation in my head followed a very
 common
 pattern:

 - How do I do this in Wonder? Oh, here is a way. And here's
 a way, and
   another and another and...
 - Which one is newer? Which one is working? Which one
 depends on what?
 - What are they using? Another (Apache or Google or ...)
 technology....
 - I can just use that directly and ... (two hours later,
 more if I
   need to make coffee) ... it works.
 - Wow! I could still be trying to figure what those Wonder
 classes do
   and why they don't work, not that it is not great to
 hear how Chuck
   and Ramsey are doing these days, but....

 So, I used the org.apache.pdfbox classes directly from my
 app and the
 client was happy. The pretty picture is in the right place,
 multiple
 page invoices, yep. The hardest part was writing helper
 classes which
 translated "goTo" and "moveTo" commands to the PDFBox page
 geometry,
 but once those were written, it just fell together.

 It kind of looks as though if I have a XML doc to write out
 to PDF and
 I am not trying to do much with the layout or to change the
 appearance,
 I can use ERPDFWrapper. But if I do not care about
 configuring the
 appearance, why would I be using PDFs?

 I probably could put my code in Wonder, but it does not
 depend on
 anything else, doesn't include a new technology and would
 not require
 the addition of 2 or 3 jars to the ERExtensions project so
 that would
 just be weird....

 Or maybe ERPDFWrapper is more amazing than I can see. Is it?
 For what?

 thanx - ray

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