On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 18:19, Patrick Lightbody wrote: > Pardon me for my ignorance... but could you possibly provide a high level > detail of what Jasper Reports is, specifically how it integrates in with WW? > > -Pat >
Jasper Reports is an open source reporting tool that allows the creation of pretty reports from a given data source. The best known commercial product that performs the same function would be Crystal Reports. The way Jasper works is to take a compiled XML report definition and a data source and produce a report in one of a number of formats including PDF, XML, CSV, XLS and HTML. The webwork integration provides a dispatcher servlet that uses the value stack as a Jasper Reports data source to "fill" a Jasper Report with data and produce a PDF which is then sent back in the HTTP response. The Jasper reports code is quite small and, in IMHO, shows off the power of webwork to allow the addition of views so easily. -- Peter Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Moveit Pty Ltd ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
