Chapter 2. Requirements

There are some requirements for using FOP Editor:

FOP Editor resources consists of FOP Editor applet and FOP Servlet - Enhydra Application fopes. This servlet is just example servlet which helps to generate a PDF from input sources. User can develop his own servlet to generate more different PDF documents from this.

This FOP Editor is developed and tested with FOP version 0.20.4. so you should use this version or above. FOP jar files that are necessary for generating a PDF file are fop.jar, avalon-framework-cvs-20020315.jar and batik.jar so, these files have to be in CLASSPATH. If you use FOP Editor with fopes application, than you shouldn't setting up an additional environment parameters like CLASSPATH or similar. In fopes's internal classpath these files are included already.

FOP Editor applet is a swing Java applet so you have to use Java plug-in version 1.3 or above.