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Re: Glassfish + JSF + stream pdf to output -- please sun guys...help!!!

From: Jeanfrancois Arcand <Jeanfrancois.Arcand_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:31:20 -0500

Hi Derick,

please file a bug with you application and we will fix it very fast :-)
The evaluation you did so far is very interesting because it seems the
problem is clearly in JSF, not in Grizzly :-). Anyway file the bug with
your test and I will take a look.

Thanks

-- Jeanfrancois



Derick Potgieter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has any one done this...streamed a dynamic pdf to output on browser?
> I`ve done this on 8.2 by sending the page to a servlet on the page
> navigation. Then called the request.getOutputStream().write(...).
>
> Now this seemed to work perfectly...until i upgraded to glassfish where
> i think JSF 1.2 is screwing me up....now i havent selected it to be
> included in Netbeans 5.5 + web pack. But i recon the server obviously
> includes it because of enterprise 5 compatibility.
>
> Now i`ve tested it by creating a new web app without JSF support and
> streaming from there in a servlet....and this works like a dream.
> But using the same library and code in the JSF app gives me the pdf 19
> pages big....but nothing in it.
>
> I`ve compared the file from the servlet without JSF framework....and it
> is different to the one (some characters are different, but the general
> layout is the same.)
>
> Is there maybe a rule in the new JSF 1.2 specification that doesnt allow
> you to swap from your action class to a servlet....or mabe doesnt allow
> you to stream out....or mabe changes the bytes in a teleporter and then
> doesnt output write.
>
> Please....can anyone look at this....please??
>
> I`m now at the point of just making a small JSF app and streaming out
> via a servlet to check if it is the JSF stuff causing crap....this same
> approach works in a plain jsp+servlet app.
>
> Thanks for all the reading..
>
> Rgds
> Derick
>
>