How to create pdf file in struts2.
Posted on: February 16, 2011 at 12:00 AM

In this section, you will see how to create pdf file in struts2.

How to create pdf file in struts2.

In this example, you will see the how to create PDF in struts, and how to write message in generated PDF file in struts2.

For this, we requires a jar file iText.jar. It is used in java for generating PDF.

index.jspADS_TO_REPLACE_1

<html>

<head>

<title>Generate_PDF_in_Struts</title>

</head>

<body><h1>Generate_PDF_in_Struts</h1><hr>ADS_TO_REPLACE_3

<h2 style="color: green;">Loading.....</h2>

</body>

</html>

MessageJSp.jsp

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"ADS_TO_REPLACE_4

pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>

<%@taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="s"%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ADS_TO_REPLACE_5

"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html><head><title>Generate_PDF_in_Struts</title></head>

<body><h1>Generate_PDF_in_Struts</h1><hr>ADS_TO_REPLACE_6

<s:form action="generatepdf.action">

<s:textarea name="message" label="Write Message In PDF :"></s:textarea>

<s:submit></s:submit> </s:form>ADS_TO_REPLACE_7

</body>

</html>

GeneratePDFAction.java (Action Class)

package net.roseindia.action;

import java.io.*;ADS_TO_REPLACE_8

import net.roseindia.model.MessageInPDF;

import com.lowagie.text.Document;

import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;ADS_TO_REPLACE_9

import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport;

import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ModelDriven;ADS_TO_REPLACE_10

public class GeneratePDFAction extends ActionSupport implements ModelDriven {

MessageInPDF obMessage;

public String execute() throws Exception {ADS_TO_REPLACE_11

String string = obMessage.getMessage();

Document document = new Document();

PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(ADS_TO_REPLACE_12

"c:\\StrutsExample.pdf"));

document.open();

document.add(new Paragraph(string));ADS_TO_REPLACE_13

document.close();

return SUCCESS; }

@OverrideADS_TO_REPLACE_14

public Object getModel() {

obMessage = new MessageInPDF();

// TODO Auto-generated method stubADS_TO_REPLACE_15

return obMessage; }

}

MessageInPDF.java (Model)

package net.roseindia.model;

public class MessageInPDF {ADS_TO_REPLACE_16

private String message;

public String getMessage() {

return message; }ADS_TO_REPLACE_17

public void setMessage(String message) {

this.message = message; }

}

struts.xmlADS_TO_REPLACE_18

<constant name="struts.devMode" value="false" />ADS_TO_REPLACE_19

<action name="message">ADS_TO_REPLACE_20

<result>/jsp/MessageJSp.jsp</result>

</action>

<action name="generatepdf" class="net.roseindia.action.GeneratePDFAction">ADS_TO_REPLACE_21

<result name="input">/jsp/MessageJSp.jsp</result>

<result>jsp/success.jsp</result>

</action>ADS_TO_REPLACE_22

</package>

</struts>

RegistrationSuccess.jspADS_TO_REPLACE_23

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"

pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ADS_TO_REPLACE_24

"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<title>Success page </title></head>

<body><h1>Generate_PDF_in_Struts</h1><hr>

<h3 style="color: green;">PDF successfully Generated......</h3>ADS_TO_REPLACE_26

</body>

</html

Output

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