Re: Next assignment - Reports

[Scott Johnson <sjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pete,

Where do you have the Jasper engine running for this?
Why the need for .7 & .8 when iReport exists?

-- ScottJ

Pete Helgren wrote:
> Nathan,
>
> You mentioned that Jasper Reports isn't an option but I am putting the 
> finishing touches on an RPG wrapper for Jasper Reports called "RPG 
> Report Engine".  It is loosely based on the concepts that Scott Klement 
> uses for the HSSF wrapper and Aaron Bartell uses for the RPG Chart 
> Engine he wrote that wraps the jFreeChart API's.  The 0.4 release I am 
> working on doesn't currently have the "static" engine that RPG Chart 
> Engine has where Aaron implements the engine running in a subsystem job 
> and uses data queues to process the chart requests (eliminating JVM 
> startup costs) but I plan to implement something similar as soon as I 
> have the API's done.  The current version would start and end a JVM with 
> each submission.
>
> The report outputs to PDF, HTML, XLS, RTF, TXT, CSV, ODT and has an 
> option for emailing the completed report (using Javamail).  I am working 
> on the final test case now (passing report parameters) and hope to have 
> it done tonight or tomorrow because I need to deliver it to a customer 
> on Thursday (!)
>
> In this case the report designs would be static (you could use iReport 
> to create them) but the report would accept parameters so you could 
> capture them in your form and pass them to the RPG wrapper.
>
> The .5 release will add the "static engine" option.
>
> The .6 release will add a rudimentary query to Jasper conversion tool.
>
> The .7 release will add a scaled down WYSIWYG designer (swt)
>
> The .8 release will add a rudimentary HTML designer
>
> The .9 release is a placeholder for requested enhancements.
>
> Just an FYI if other alternatives don't materialize for you.
>
> Pete