APACHE PDFBOX EXAMPLE WITH MAVEN

Here is an example of create a Maven project using Netbean.

In this example, I used Apache PDFBox as an example of using maven for managing Java library

1. We create a new project using Netbean:

New Maven project with Netbean

Input the artifactId and package name

2. Add code

Declare maven dependenies

    4.0.0
    com.blogspot.ducnguyen.dev
    pdfbox-example
    1.0-SNAPSHOT
    jar
    
        UTF-8
        1.7
        1.7
    
    
        
        
            org.apache.pdfbox
            pdfbox
            2.0.0
        
    

Add Java Code:

package com.blogspot.ducnguyen.dev.pdfbox.example;

import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font;

/**
 *
 * @author nvduc
 */
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
    {
        long timestamp = System.currentTimeMillis();
        String filename = "test-"+timestamp+".pdf";
        String message = "Hello World at : "+ timestamp;
        
        PDDocument doc = new PDDocument();
        try
        {
            PDPage page = new PDPage();
            doc.addPage(page);
            
            PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD;

            PDPageContentStream contents = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page);
            contents.beginText();
            contents.setFont(font, 12);
            contents.newLineAtOffset(100, 700);
            contents.showText(message);
            contents.endText();
            contents.close();
            
            doc.save(filename);
        }
        finally
        {
            doc.close();
        }
    }
}

3. Running

Before running, we must build project, When we build, maven will get pdfbox library from maven repository

Build project in NetBean

Right click on Main.java file, Choose Run File

We can check the result in Files view

Result after choose Run File

You can check the source code on Github