Project Summary
Flying Saucer takes XML or XHTML and applies CSS 2.1-compliant stylesheets to it, in order to render to PDF (via iText), images, and on-screen using Swing or SWT. The library implements (basically) the entirety of CSS 2.1 and aims to be fully compliant with the W3C specification; it includes a small handful of CSS 3 features. It is written in pure Java with no native extensions.
In a Nutshell, Flying Saucer...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 33 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in June, 2004
ending with its most recent commit 6 days ago
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