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RPG Report Engine i just JasperReports API's wrapped in RPG. All running on the i of course, since it is the only OS that can run RPG.

Not familiar with JasperServer but the next milestone is to run the wrapped API's in a subsystem job which will process the report requests (take a look at Aaron Bartell's RPG Chart Engine if you want an idea of what I plan to do). A quick review of JasperServer looks cool. It can all run native on i so perhaps I'll look into it further.

Thanks,

Pete

Scott Johnson wrote:
Just checking if you were 'running' the JasperReports from the i5 or using the JasperServer.

I do believe that the JasperServer comes into play when you want a web front-end for running reports. Don't think that will run from the i5 though.

I look forward to checking out what you have done.

-- ScottJ

Pete Helgren wrote:
I am going to release it this morning, Mountain Time (promise!)

If I understand your question correctly, the Jasper engine is called from RPG and runs in a JVM that is instantiated for the life of report creation (job) and then the JVM is destroyed when the job ends. If you are asking where do you get the RPG Report Engine, I'll release it both to my Pete's Workshop web site at the same time I post it to OpenSource4i.com and I'll post those links here and at midrange.com.

Why would I create a "designer" when one already exists? There is a "transition area" between a designer like iReport and "prompt and run" solution where all the user can do is to choose the values for selection on the report. In some cases, a designer that allows column selection, breaking, sorting and some basic formatting options without all the bells and whistles of something like iReport can be a highly useful tool. I haven't thought beyond the basics but I may just scale back iReport to a few essential functions and release that as the SWT version. The HTML version is needed for the web centric world we live in.

Like any open source project, we'll have to see how this unfolds. I post more in a bit.

Pete




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