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Re: [xsl] Deploying xsl sheets in Java Environment

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seems to be a little off topic for xsl-list, but here are some ideas:

Easy way: make the xsl file read-only (and additionally encrypt it by using a lot of for-each instructions?)
Hard way: include the xsl file into your jar-file and then use Class.getResourceAsStream() or ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream() to get a inputstream to it and pass this stream to your xsl processor. The processor will certainly have an initializer to read the stylesheet from a stream instead of a file object.

Cheers,
Johannes

Hi.

> I need to deploy a xsl document that converts the input XML document into
> another XML document that is used at the backend. One way of deploying
this
> xsl file is to place it in a config directory and access it from the Java
> code. However, the config directory is deployed at the customer's server
> site and I don't want the customers to be able to access this xsl file (to
> avoid accidental deletes and changes)....What are my options? Is there a
way
> I can encrypt this file? I am not using any application server...

For speed and obfuscation I guess you may complile a stylesheet into a java
class. As far as I remember, alphaworks.ibm.com has a technology and so has
the apache xml initiative. And many more.
If this is ony to secure the stylesheet itself - not access to it, I guess
it will be a right solution.

Bye.
/lexi

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