Re: Opinions and experiences with ReportBro

All the more reason to consider something like Jasper Reports.

You would let users/report developers design report templates at the desktop.

Execute those Jasper Report templates using your back-end Java server code and render to PDF with Jasper Reports and iText.

Pete Helgren even published an RPG wrapper around this several years back.

Looks like the code is still available here:
http://www.petesworkshop.com/downloads/rre.zip

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 19:02:37 +0200
from: Marco Facchinetti <marco.facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Opinions and experiences with ReportBro

Hi Nathan,

we have a deamon (java) waiting on a dataq, our applications issue requests to that deamon including:
- the template name
- the xml data file name
- the type and the name of the output file
- Delivery options (mail, push, ftp, ifs ...)

the deamon process the request and give back errors (if any). Basicly FreeMarker and xDocReport proces the xml data file and "apply" the tags implementing FreeMarker syntax.

The daemon itself can easly run in a balanced structure (n istances with a router to supply faster response time)

Actually the deamon (FreeMarker + xDocReport) runs in IBM i.

Best regards
--
Marco Facchinetti

Mr S.r.l.

Tel. 035 962885
Cel. 393 9620498

Skype: facchinettimarco


Il giorno mer 14 lug 2021 alle ore 16:38 Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

Hi Marco,

You've made it quite clear that you want to provide users with tooling
that helps them design report/document templates. You've also made it
clear your reasons for users being involved in document design (i.e.
the users are more knowledgeable about certain content and how it must
be placed in, say insurance contracts). But you seem to be avoiding
saying much about what you might do with templates after users have
completed them. You did mention that you provide an application and
data. Could you fill in the steps you take to implement the
report/document generation after users complete template designs?

Nathan