Re: PDF Performance

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have been meaning to dive into your RPG Report Engine for awhile and I
just now skimmed your presentation.  Does each new report require Java
coding to be done?  I wasn't quite sure on that.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> FWIW I presented a session at the recent Orlando Common Conference on
> "Open Source Report Writing Tools for IBM i".  You can find the
> presentation here:
>
> http://www.opensource4i.com/Open_Source_Report_Writing_Tools_for_IBM_i%20-_Orlando_2010.pdf
>
> I also finished up some additional work on the RPG Report Engine which
> now has an RPG wrapper for iText (rudimentary) and can run reports from
> RPG created for Jasper or BIRT.  The BIRT addition took the zip file
> from about 10mb to 150mb (!) and I haven't had time to strip out jars
> and plugins that aren't relevant to the BIRT report features that the
> Report Engine supports but it is all open source and the complete (and
> large) zip file can be found here:
> http://www.opensource4i.com/downloads/2008042811495836/rrepackage.zip
> Even with my new Comcast service it'll probably take a while to download.
>
> RRE still suffers from not having a "server" piece in place that handles
> the problem of JVM warm up.  A report "server" is the next thing that
> will be added but you might find the iText stuff useful for generating
> PDF directly from RPG.
>
> Pete