On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Sandro Martini <sandro.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have to try, but many years has passed since my last use of these > features, and I hope with java 6 now things should go better ... > Or, better I can try to draw reports in PDF (for example with the > great iText library, or with xml + xslt or other similar), and let > users open/print them, probably a better option. PDFBox, right here at Apache !!! http://pdfbox.apache.org/ IIRC, they just graduated a few months ago... :-) >> Since we don't currently provide a way to turn animations off, I'd suggest >> avoiding such components if you can. > Maybe we can think at something on this for the next release, but > before the 2.0 ... add a JIRA ticket for the 1.5 ? > So a Test / demo of a simple Printing feature could be really useful, > I have to think at something simple on it. > As always comments/suggestions are welcome. I agree that Printing is an important aspect of Human-Machine-Interaction, and for instance Eclipse has for many years ignored supporting this fully (not on Linux). > This was my first try, but another requirements is that (if existing) > the server part has to run under AS/400 (IBM iSeries), and after some > tests, using the Graphical Report designer of JasperReports (iReport) > I wasn't able to connect to the DB on a test server (using JTOpen > drivers), so it wasn't a good start. So my boss now has the (bad) idea > to make all in-house :-( ... let's see. Not sure what the DB is like, but it isn't that hard to create a driver to JasperReport, so instead of tossing everything out the window, I would suggest that either use Jasper or BIRT (Eclipse) and create a driver module for your DB. That will for sure be less work than and more features than building everything up front. Or why not even Crystal Reports (you don't work for free, do you)?? Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug
