Hi Mona,
Eventually ADS has a web service interface. The Web Dynpro PDFDocument API eventually just uses this web service. In that perspective, it's technically certainly possible to generate PDFs and to import/export the data.xml and use other features in a standard J2EE application. A serious difficulty is that there's no documentation concerning this web service interface. It's more or less possible to figure that out yourself, but since the interface is not part of the public API, there's absolutely no guarantee it remains stable between different patches.
Bottomline: technically it's possible, even achievable, but I wouldn't advice this approach (and I doubt SAP supports it).
A much easier (but not that easy solution would be to call a Web Dynpro application (without a UI) from a J2EE application where the Web Dynpro application uses the PDFDocument API (NW04s) or PDFObject API (NW04). Maybe you can even use the Web Dynpro API directly from within a J2EE application? There's certainly no issue at compile time, but I'm not sure which references you need at runtime.
Kind regards,
Sigiswald
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