Supplying resources directly to Flying Saucer
In the Java world, one of the options you have for generating PDFs is Flying Saucer. It is quite a nice solution that renders HTML to, amongst other things, PDF. In its simplest form a report, receipt, etc, could just be a chunk of text. But, more realistic situations would require images to be embedded in the output, be these logos, charts, images, etc. A commonly found suggestion for achieving this is to link to the assets via the file-system. This actually occurs by default if you set the base URL of the document to null: ...