Quick Start (SOAP mode): Exporting XMP metadata using the Java API

The following code example retrieves, inspects, and saves XMP metadata. (See Exporting Metadata from PDF Documents.)

/* 
    * This Java Quick Start uses the following JAR files 
    * 1. adobe-pdfutility-client.jar 
    * 2. adobe-livecycle-client.jar 
    * 3. adobe-usermanager-client.jar 
    * 4. activation.jar (required for SOAP mode) 
    * 5. axis.jar (required for SOAP mode) 
    * 6. commons-codec-1.3.jar (required for SOAP mode) 
    * 7. commons-collections-3.2.jar  (required for SOAP mode) 
    * 8. commons-discovery.jar (required for SOAP mode) 
    * 9. commons-logging.jar (required for SOAP mode) 
    * 10. dom3-xml-apis-2.5.0.jar (required for SOAP mode) 
    * 11. jaxen-1.1-beta-9.jar (required for SOAP mode) 
    * 12. jaxrpc.jar (required for SOAP mode) 
    * 13. log4j.jar (required for SOAP mode) 
    * 14. mail.jar (required for SOAP mode) 
    * 15. saaj.jar (required for SOAP mode) 
    * 16. wsdl4j.jar (required for SOAP mode) 
    * 17. xalan.jar (required for SOAP mode) 
    * 18. xbean.jar (required for SOAP mode) 
    * 19. xercesImpl.jar (required for SOAP mode) 
    *  
    *  The JBoss files must be kept in the jboss\client folder. You can copy the client folder to  
    *  your local development environment and then include the 3 JBoss JAR files in your class path 
    *   
    *  These JAR files are located in the following path: 
    * <install directory>/sdk/client-libs/common 
    *  
    *  
    * <install directory>/jboss/bin/client 
    *  
    * If you want to invoke a remote forms server instance and there is a 
    * firewall between the client application and the server, then it is  
    * recommended that you use the SOAP mode. When using the SOAP mode,  
    * you have to include additional JAR files located in the following  
    * path 
    * <install directory>/sdk/client-libs/thirdparty 
    *  
    * For information about the SOAP  
    * mode and the additional JAR files that need to be included,  
    * see "Setting connection properties" in Programming  
    * with AEM Forms 
    *  
    * For complete details about the location of the AEM Forms JAR files,  
    * see "Including AEM Forms Java library files" in Programming  
    * with AEM Forms 
    */ 
import com.adobe.livecycle.xmputility.*; 
import com.adobe.livecycle.xmputility.client.*; 
import java.util.*; 
import java.io.*; 
import com.adobe.idp.Document; 
import com.adobe.idp.dsc.clientsdk.ServiceClientFactory; 
import com.adobe.idp.dsc.clientsdk.ServiceClientFactoryProperties; 
 
public class ExportMetadata 
{ 
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    { 
        try 
        { 
            //Set connection properties required to invoke AEM Forms                                 
            Properties connectionProps = new Properties(); 
            connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_DEFAULT_SOAP_ENDPOINT, "jnp://[server]:[port]"); 
            connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_TRANSPORT_PROTOCOL,ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_SOAP_PROTOCOL);           
            connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_SERVER_TYPE, "JBoss"); 
            connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_CREDENTIAL_USERNAME, "administrator"); 
            connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_CREDENTIAL_PASSWORD, "password"); 
 
            //Create a ServiceClientFactory instance 
            ServiceClientFactory factory = ServiceClientFactory.createInstance(connectionProps); 
 
            // Create a XMP Utility client 
            XMPUtilityServiceClient xmpUt = new XMPUtilityServiceClient(factory); 
 
            // Specify a PDF document whose metadata is to be exported 
            FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream("C:\\Adobe\Loan.pdf"); 
            Document inDoc = new Document(fileInputStream); 
 
            // Export the XMP metadata object 
            XMPUtilityMetadata myXmp = xmpUt.exportMetadata(inDoc); 
 
            // Inspect the XMP metadata object (retrieve the document?s author in this case) 
            String name = myXmp.getAuthor(); 
            System.out.println("The document?s author is " + name); 
 
            // Export the XMP metadata to an XML file 
            Document outDoc = xmpUt.exportXMP(inDoc); 
            File xmpFile = new File("c:\\LoanMetaData.xml"); 
            outDoc.copyToFile(xmpFile); 
        } 
        catch (Exception e) 
        { 
            System.out.println("Error occurred: " + e.getMessage()); 
        } 
    } 
} 

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