Flying saucer (library)

Flying saucer (library)

Infobox_Software
name = Flying Saucer



caption = webpage rendered with Flying Saucer
developer =
latest_release_version = R7
latest_release_date = July 14, 2007
latest_preview_version = R8 pre2
latest_preview_date = January 28 2008
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = XHTML / CSS renderer library
license = LGPL
website = [https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/ xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net]

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 malformed legacy HTML.

History

Flying Saucer was started in 2004 by Joshua Marinacci [cite web
url=http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2004/06/my_new_opensour.html
title=My new opensource project: Flying Saucer, an all Java XHTML renderer
last=Marinacci|first=Joshua
date=2004-06-14
accessdate=2008-06-29] , which 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 [cite web
url=http://blogs.sun.com/chrisoliver/entry/f3_and_html
title=F3 and HTML
last=Oliver|first=Chris
quote="We plan on incorporating the Flying Saucer Java XHTML renderer into F3 eventually"
date=2006-12-14
accessdate=2008-06-29] , the scripting language based on the Java platform which later became JavaFX Script.

Compliance

Flying saucer is said to provide a very good compliance on XHTML and CSS 2.1 standards [cite web
url=http://freshmeat.net/projects/flyingsaucer/
title=Flying Saucer - Default branch
publisher=freshmeat.net
date=2007-07-14
accessdate=2008-06-30] [cite web
url=http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2007/07/flying_saucer_r.html
title=Flying Saucer R7 is out
last=Marinacci|first=Joshua
date=2007-07-14
accessdate=2008-06-30] , even being able to render correctly some webpages that appeared broken in Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari [cite web
url=http://www.curious-creature.org/2007/07/16/xhtmlcss-rendering-in-swing/
title=XHTML/CSS Rendering In Swing
last=Guy|first=Romain
date=2007-07-16
quote="The support for XHTML and CSS 2.1 is great and the rendering very fast. I was particularly surprised by the quality of the rendering of filthyrichclients.org, which caused many troubles to IE, Firefox and Safari"
accessdate=2008-06-30] .

References

External links

* [http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/06/26/generating-pdfs-with-flying-saucer-and-itext.html Generate PDF with Flying Saucer]
* [http://java.dzone.com/tips/ten-amazing-java-applications Flying Saucer stated as one of ten amazing Java applications]


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