title: Java PDF viewer with FDF
body: <p>My company needs a PDF viewer with Java API with the additional requirement on being able to use FDF form data.</p>
  
  <p>The only one i found was <a href="http://www.jpedal.org/index.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">JPedal</a> which promises to feature everything we need, but it costs a bunch. So what are my options? Is there another tool to do it?</p>
  
  <p>edit:</p>
  
  <p>I found <a href="http://www.lowagie.com/iText/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">iText</a> to be an easy way to merge FDF data into the PDF form.</p>
  
  <p>The only LGPL viewer that worked <em>ok</em> (unlike Adobe's own 10 year old Java 1.1 API) was Sun's <a href="https://pdf-renderer.dev.java.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">pdf-renderer</a>. But sadly it doesn't display form values. iText's form-flattening helps, but there has to be a better way.</p>