If you use Java 1.1.x you must also seperately include the swing classes, which can be found at the Sun website. From Java 1.2 on (aka Java 2) they are part of the standard distribution.

An XML parser which supports Sax and DOM like Xerces-J. The parser must be in your classpath

Some of the Java source code in FOP is generated from XML using XSLT. Xalan must be used to generate this code.

Xalan is an XSL stylesheet processor written in java. At the moment you can't use any other processor, because the make process makes use of some proprietary features of Xalan which allow to write output in more then one document. You can find Xalan also at xml.apache.org. You have to use Xalan version 0.19.5 or later. Xalan.jar must be in your classpath and also the file bsf.jar, which comes with Xalan.

You have to set the enviroment variable JAVA_HOME. It must point to your local JDK root directory. This is true, even if you use JDK 1.2 or above, which don't need this setting. It is used by the compilation software.

If you need PDFOutputHandler (an extension, which calls Fop from the XSLT processor XT) you also must have xp.jar and xt.jar (both can be found at http://www.jclark.com/xml/ in your classpath.

A CLASSPATH for a complete compilation of Fop could look like this, if all these jar files are in a directory called jars (example uses windows syntax):

set CLASSPATH=\jars\xp.jar;\jars\xt.jar;\jars\xalan.jar;\jars\xerces.jar;\jars\bsf.jar