Flying Saucer (library)
 webpage rendered with Flying Saucer | |
| Stable release | 9.8.0[1]
/ 26 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Repository | |
CSS renderer library | |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer |
Flying Saucer (also called XHTML renderer) is a pure
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,[2] who was later hired by Sun Microsystems. It is still an open-source project unrelated to Sun.
Java platform which later became JavaFX Script
.
Compliance
Flying saucer has very good
See also
References
- ^ "Release 9.8.0". 26 May 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
- ^ Marinacci, Joshua (2004-06-14). "My new opensource project: Flying Saucer, an all Java XHTML renderer". Archived from the original on 2008-04-19. Retrieved 2008-06-29.
- ^ Oliver, Chris (2006-12-14). "F3 and HTML". Archived from the original on 2013-12-14. Retrieved 2008-06-29.
We plan on incorporating the Flying Saucer Java XHTML renderer into F3 eventually
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Flying Saucer - Default branch". freshmeat.net. 2007-07-14. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ Marinacci, Joshua (2007-07-14). "Flying Saucer R7 is out". Archived from the original on 2008-09-07. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ Guy, Romain (2007-07-16). "XHTML/CSS Rendering In Swing". Retrieved 2008-06-30.
External links
- Flying Saucer Project Website on Github
- Generate PDF with Flying Saucer
- "Flying Saucer". Freecode.
- Generating PDFs with Java, Flying Saucer and Thymeleaf (Part 1)
- Generating PDFs with Java, Flying Saucer and Thymeleaf (Part 2)
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