In this article, I will demonstrate how you can use Java from within an XSLT stylesheet. First, we will use Xalan’s extensibility to instantiate and use existing classes within the JDK.

In that case, Web application developers use various technologies to deliver dynamic data-driven content. We need something similar that, instead of HTML, generates Java source code for our beans.

XSL will also format the data returned from the legacy system — once the Java code transforms it back into XML — into a usable structure for the function or application using this API.

The solution has to be programming language-independent. We use Python, PHP, Perl and Java. The images need to be created using any of these languages. We must be able to convert the claim data and ...