May be JSF can handle this issue. Thus, somebody wrote a component to show reports and one can configure renderer..
Manish Singla
Kirk Wylie wrote:
See below.
Linus Nikander wrote:
Then I have lots of "display information only"-pages. Most of these are
tables that are based on some sort of DB table. Right now I:
Call a struts Action.
The Action retrieves the data, populates a boatload of Beans.
The Beans are stuffed into a List, which in turn is put into a List which
resides in my Form.
The jsp retrieves the Form.
The jsp performs a <logic:iterate id="bean" name="myForm" property="myList"
indexId="i"></logic:iterate>
The information is output with a lot of bean:write's
Although this approach appeals to me in some ways (nice separation of
concerns DB / Business-layer / Display for instance) it also seems a bit
over the top at times. I could easily accomplish the same display by letting
the .jsp do the talking with the DB. Or perhaps let a servlet do it all for
me.
This raises an interesting point, which I've not run into yet.
This is often solved in a non-Struts application by having a "reporting" facility which is used to do the analysis/pure-display pages (i.e. ones which have minimal interaction with the rest of hte application, but which create a lot of heavy-lifting reports). That facility is often provided by a third-party package such as Crystal Reports.
Does anybody have any experience integrating a Struts application with a third-party package like that? Any tips? I'm curious because some of the stuff I work on may have that type of requirement (big report pages) in the future, and we've got people that are experienced with Crystal Reports, so if I can easily integrate that into the technology stack I'd love to.
Kirk Wylie M7 Corporation
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