Flying Saucer (library)

Flying Saucer
Stable release
9.11.2[1] / 2 December 2024; 27 days ago (2 December 2024)
Repository
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeXHTML / CSS renderer library
LicenseLGPL
Websitegithub.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,[2] 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,[3] 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.[4][5][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Release 9.11.2". 2 December 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ "Flying Saucer - Default branch". freshmeat.net. 2007-07-14. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
  5. ^ Marinacci, Joshua (2007-07-14). "Flying Saucer R7 is out". Archived from the original on 2008-09-07. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
  6. ^ Guy, Romain (2007-07-16). "XHTML/CSS Rendering In Swing". Retrieved 2008-06-30.
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