Configuration and deployment of PDF printing in APEX 4.1.1 using GlassFish 3.1.2 and Apache FOP

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Matthias Hoys

Environment: Oracle database 11.2.0.3, APEX 4.1.1, GlassFish 3.1.2 Open Source Edition (Web Profile), Oracle Linux 6.2

Update: Apache FOP support has been deprecated in ORDS 19.2. So please don’t upgrade to ORDS 19.2 (or higher) if you still rely on Apache FOP for PDF generation.

Apache FOP (XSL-FO Processor) can be used together with APEX to allow PDF printing of classic or interactive reports. In this blog post, I will explain how you can deploy and configure FOP in APEX 4.1.1 with GlassFish 3.1.2.

Apache FOP can be installed on a Java application server by deploying the fop.war web archive, which can be found in the /utilities/fop folder inside the APEX installation files. However, the fop.war file does not work out of the box on GlassFish 3.1.2.

I faced two different kind of errors in my installation:

1) package oracle.xml.parser.v2 does not exist: this is because…

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