I never had to use JasperReports, but I think it could be a cool addition. It could be nice to add a "strategy" pattern to the tag class that (now) renders the html resultSet.
We could have a "render engine" that could:
- renders html (default, always...)
- uses jasperreport to render pdf reports
- uses POI (http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/) to render Excel reports (to make Shawn happy ;^)
Anyway, it could be nice to make this with a plugin architecture,
that makes possible to compile the dbforms core without other extensions.
My .02 euro... ;^)
Regards,
Luca
Henner Kollmann wrote:
Hi all, Is it interesting for you to combine DbForms with JasperReports (http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net)?Offers following features * Data is read from the current dbForm. * Servlet is looking for the report xml file in WEB-INF/reports (configurable in dbforms-config) * If compiled report is older then report xml or does not exist then report will be recompiled. Could offer this if it is interesting for you.. Regards, Henner
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