Flying Saucer (also called XHTML renderer) is a pure Java library for rendering XML, XHTML, and CSS 2.1 content.
 webpage rendered with Flying Saucer | |
| Stable release | 9.9.5[1]
/ 30 September 2024 |
|---|---|
| Repository | |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | XHTML / CSS renderer library |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer |
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
editFlying 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
editFlying saucer has very good XHTML markup and CSS 2.1 standards compliance, even in complex cases.[4][5][6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Release 9.9.5". 30 September 2024. Retrieved 21 October 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
edit- 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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