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Development

Rails on Glassfish 3

I’m not a big fan of the Rails hype, but I am curious to see what it will result in. Anyhow, running Rails on Glassfish 3 is pretty neat. Exciting times. 🙂

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General

PDF tips

I don’t need this very often, but when I do I can never find it. 🙂 10 tips for PDF: http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-pdf-tricks-289583.php

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Development

Generating PDFs

Finding libraries for generating PDFs in Java isn’t that difficult. There are good frameworks out there. Ease of use for the programmers varies a lot though. At work we have been using the Big Faceless Java PDF Library. It’s payware, but the price is decent. It seems though that there might be a different open source contender available (Flying Saucer). Check out a comprehensive article on it here.