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How to convert the ConfigProperties_server1.props which is extracted from websphere using wsadmin to xml or json file?

This is the Jython script I have used to extract the ConfigProperties_server1.props file:
AdminTask.extractConfigProperties('[-propertiesFileName ConfigProperties_server1.props -configData Server=server1]')

Welcome to SO. The AdminTask.extractConfigProperties command has no option to control the format of the file. The option PortablePropertiesFile might sound promising, but instead it controls whether internal XMI ids are included in the props file. You're going to have to parse the properties file and convert it yourself, the syntax of the file is documented in this IBM KnowledgeCenter topic. Given the complexity of this task, you may want to edit your question and add some detail on what you're trying to accomplish by converting to xml or json format file, so perhaps the community might better help you.

Extract text from PCL6 using Java

I don't have much knowledge regarding PCL6 file format. I wanted to know if there is any way to extract text out of PCL6 file using Java.
Thanks,
Usman

Convert the file to PDF (see Ghostscript/GhostPDL) and then use Apache Tika.
The first step will require to use some Runtime.getRuntime().exec(...)

Word2Fo Java PlugIn

I'm using Word2Fo to generate XSL-FO code so that my Java application can generate a PDF instead of a Doc. This is all well and good, and I've gotten the raw XSL-FO code now, but there's over a thousand lines of FO instructions, and it would be a pain to go over every single line to format it for Java output in w.write.
Is there any plugin for Word2Fo that can do this automatically on conversion? Directing me to a Word2Fo Plugin library would be help in and of itself as well, since I can't seem to find one naturally existing anywhere.

Create a readable report (PDF) from XML output in Java

I'm trying to make a tool that's able to import XML output files from a certain tool and 'convert' them into nice a nice PDF report that sums things up in understandable language for normal people.
Output files always contain specific data, but I just want my appliciation to automatically create a report that's not hard to read for someone who's not very familiar with technology.
I know it's impossible to do completely automated, so I guess I'll have to use some kind of pre-defined templates or something, but I'm not sure what the best solution is.
Importing and reading the XML files isn't hard, but how do I convert them to a readable PDF document?

Apache FOP may help. This is a print formatter. Uses XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects) as template, and supports pdf as output. XSL-FO is a language for formatting XML data.

Java Pdf Diff library

Does anybody know of a open source Java library that will do robust diffing of the text parts of pdf files?
Ideally I would like something that would produce a diff in the form of a patch.

Extract the pdf text with http://incubator.apache.org/pdfbox/ and create a diff with http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch.

If the PDFs are different only in text, you could also rasterize the pages and then look at the differences that way - we use that for regression testing output on our PDF code.

You can take a look of xdiffweb.com. It's a pure java opensource project based on apache pdfbox.