Generating PDFs with Apache FOP and Velocity

Generating PDF files is a common thing in web applications. For a long time I was using iText to accomplish this task but writing PDF’s content in Java code was a struggle. Nowadays iText is free for non-commercial use only which makes it even less sensible choice.

@Observes inheritance

Weld-core:1.1.8.Final fixed important issue (WELD-1111) concerning inheritance of member-level metadata for generic types. Now we can have parametrized super classes with @Observes methods!