Last night I had the pleasure of attending an AZCFUG (Phoenix, AZ) meeting. The topic of the evening was "Dynamically Creating PDF Files using XSL-FO and Apache FOP", given by Ken Johnson. For those of you who aren't familiar with XSL-FO, it's an XML technology for generating (among other things) printable documents from XML. Ken put together an excellent presentation, along with example code and several CFCs for generating PDF documents from both files and string input.

I have to say that this was one of the more informative and useful presentations I've seen in quite some time. This is just one more example of the power available to ColdFusion developers when you leverage ColdFusion's ability to easily integrate with Java. Hats off to Ken.