Flying Saucer (library)
 webpage rendered with Flying Saucer | |
| Stable release | R8
/ April 18, 2009 |
|---|---|
| Repository | |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | XHTML / CSS renderer library |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | code.google.com/p/flying-saucer/ |
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,[1] 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,[2] 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.[3][4][5]
See also
- JavaFX
- List of web browsers
- Lobo, a Java-based browser with support for HTML 4, JavaScript and CSS2
References
- ^ Marinacci, Joshua (2004-06-14). "My new opensource project: Flying Saucer, an all Java XHTML renderer". Retrieved 2008-06-29.
- ^ Oliver, Chris (2006-12-14). "F3 and HTML". Retrieved 2008-06-29.
We plan on incorporating the Flying Saucer Java XHTML renderer into F3 eventually
- ^ "Flying Saucer - Default branch". freshmeat.net. 2007-07-14. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ Marinacci, Joshua (2007-07-14). "Flying Saucer R7 is out". 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 Google Code
- Generate PDF with Flying Saucer
- "Flying Saucer". Freecode.
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