Setting the environment

We need to download the FOP JAR file fop-0.20.5-bin.zip (or a later version) from http://archive.apache.org/dist/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/ and extract the ZIP file to a directory. To develop an XML-to-PDF conversion application, we need to create an application (ApacheFOP for example) and a project (ApacheFOP for example) in JDeveloper. In the project add an XML document, catalog.xml, with File|New. In the New Gallery window select Categories|General|XML and Items|XML Document. Click on OK. In the Create XML File window specify a File Name, catalog.xml, and click on OK. A catalog.xml file gets added to the ApacheFOP project. Copy the following catalog.xml listing to catalog.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<catalog title="Oracle Magazine" publisher="Oracle Publishing">
<journal edition="September-October 2008">
<article>
<title>Share 2.0</title>
<author>Alan Joch</author>
</article>
<article&gt...