Flying Saucer (also called XHTML renderer) is a pure

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library for rendering

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, 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

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since it does not support

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. Thanks to its capability to save rendered XHTML to PDF (using

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), 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, who was later hired by

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. It is still an open-source project unrelated to Sun.

once planned to include Flying Saucer in F3, the scripting language based on the

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which later became

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Compliance

Flying saucer has very good

markup and CSS 2.1 standards compliance, even in complex cases.

References

External links

Flying Saucer Project Website on Github

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Generating PDFs with Java, Flying Saucer and Thymeleaf (Part 1)

Generating PDFs with Java, Flying Saucer and Thymeleaf (Part 2)
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History

Compliance

See also

References

External links