Re: Opinions and experiences with ReportBro

Hi Richard, thank you for taking the time. I'm sorry to give the impression
that I don't consider your suggestions, that's not the case.

I have no particular doubts that Jasper's server side can give the results
I need.

Probably what I find it hard to express is that the experience with editors
installed on the end user's PCs is a failure because it forces us or our
customers to have staff dedicated to solving PC problems. A recent example:
three end users periodically modified an Odt template using: Word, Libre
Office or Open Office. Every now and then the template was invalid, which
of the three programs is to blame?
I think being able to guarantee consistency and compatibility in the
preparation of templates is the best guarantee of obtaining consistent and
quality results in Jasper Server (or with any other product).

"There are always paid commercial reporting solutions you could look in to
if you really need a full browser design experience."

This was part of my initial question, if you know any can you kindly point
out some?

TIA
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Il giorno gio 15 lug 2021 alle ore 23:45 Richard Schoen <
richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

Reports can be run in the browser. I think you can also edit them as
well.

However if you're running them as you suggest it shouldn't matter where
templates are created because your Java engine would ultimately execute the
reports.

Just create the templates and then use your backend daemon process to
actually execute the reports.

I won't preach the virtues of Jasper any more since you don't seem to see
it, but I think you're missing the boat if you want a FREE or paid pixel
perfect reporting engine.

There are always paid commercial reporting solutions you could look in to
if you really need a full browser design experience.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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message: 4
date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:53:13 +0200
from: Marco Facchinetti <marco.facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Opinions and experiences with ReportBro

Hi Richard, we evaluated Jasper reports but, if I'm not wrong, the only way
to edit the templates is via Jasper Studio and it's on premise not
available in a browser.

Best regards.
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Marco Facchinetti

Mr S.r.l.

Tel. 035 962885
Cel. 393 9620498

Skype: facchinettimarco


Il giorno mer 14 lug 2021 alle ore 20:39 Richard Schoen <
richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

All the more reason to consider something like Jasper Reports.

You would let users/report developers design report templates at the
desktop.

Execute those Jasper Report templates using your back-end Java server

code

and render to PDF with Jasper Reports and iText.

Pete Helgren even published an RPG wrapper around this several years

back.

Looks like the code is still available here:
http://www.petesworkshop.com/downloads/rre.zip

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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message: 1
date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 19:02:37 +0200
from: Marco Facchinetti <marco.facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Opinions and experiences with ReportBro

Hi Nathan,

we have a deamon (java) waiting on a dataq, our applications issue
requests to that deamon including:
- the template name
- the xml data file name
- the type and the name of the output file
- Delivery options (mail, push, ftp, ifs ...)

the deamon process the request and give back errors (if any). Basicly
FreeMarker and xDocReport proces the xml data file and "apply" the tags
implementing FreeMarker syntax.

The daemon itself can easly run in a balanced structure (n istances with

a

router to supply faster response time)

Actually the deamon (FreeMarker + xDocReport) runs in IBM i.

Best regards
--
Marco Facchinetti

Mr S.r.l.

Tel. 035 962885
Cel. 393 9620498

Skype: facchinettimarco

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