Quarkus PDF Generation Practice Project

A simple practice project to learn PDF generation with Quarkus, Hibernate ORM Panache, and the Quarkus OpenPDF extension.

Purpose

• Gain hands-on experience with Quarkus and Panache ORM
• Generate PDFs from database data using OpenPDF
• Serve PDFs via REST API endpoints
• Enable streaming PDF responses suitable for JVM and native modes

Features

• Generate dynamic PDF documents on the server
• REST endpoints for downloading/viewing PDFs
• PostgreSQL integration with Panache entities
• Support for extending PDFs with tables, images, and custom layouts

Future Improvements

• Add tables and images for richer PDFs
• Stream large PDFs efficiently
• Introduce unit tests validating PDF content
• Deploy on cloud and test native builds

How to Run

• Run the Docker environment to enable usage of Quarkus DEV Services
• Once running, visit http://localhost:8080
• Interact with the web interface to generate and view PDF timetables

Reference

Based on "PDF Generation in Quarkus: Practical, Performant, and Native" by The Main Thread