Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles

[Ashish Vijaywargiya-2]

Hi,

I have read "Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles" and thought that it would be of interest for other community member so sharing the link of this interview over here.I hope everybody will like it.  

http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/interviews/si-chen-opentaps.html

Regards
Ashish Vijaywargiya

 
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[flj]

Hello.

In the interview, Si Chen says we should tell him about reporting  
solutions. Here's one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports

Key features (from the site): integrated reports designer, report  
designers available as Eclipse plugins, output into various formats (PDF,  
HTML, XML, XLS, TXT, CSV), stores report definitions as XML, can integrate  
virtually any data source and has built in interfaces to JDBC, POJOs, EJB,  
XML as data sources, the report generation library is embeddable and  
written in Java, allows scripting report definitions with Groovy,  
additionally to the built in expressions syntax, requires no dedicated  
reports server. Seems pretty much same-minded with ofbiz (XML, Java,  
various integrations). Sounds pretty nice and powerful to me, although I  
didn't try it out.

br,

--
Florin Jurcovici
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Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:13:30 +0300, Ashish Vijaywargiya  
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have read "Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles" and  
> thought that it would be of interest for other community member so  
> sharing the link of this interview over here.I hope everybody will like  
> it.
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/interviews/si-chen-opentaps.html
>
> Regards
> Ashish Vijaywargiya
>
>  
> ---------------------------------
> Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com.  Check it out.

[Walter Vaughan]

Florin Jurcovici wrote:

> In the interview, Si Chen says we should tell him about reporting  
> solutions. Here's one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports

My mind may be extremely fuzzy about this, but has not the process of moving
under the Apache Foundation umbrella and license caused the removal of
jasperreport pieces that were already in the project?

Yep.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ofbiz+remove+jasperreports

Not that it directly affects the OpenTaps modules which are released with a GNU
style license.

Eventually I'd like to get into the project a "Reports" tab that would use
Pentaho or something similar with a bunch of out of the box reports.

--
Walter

[David E Jones-2]

Please note: if JasperReports is a good solution (which it hasn't yet  
proven to be), then we can and actually do (I think) include reports  
written in Jasper in OFBiz.

The only thing we can't do is distribute the JasperReports jar files.  
That means the installation process for OFBiz is slightly more  
complicated, but it's not that big of a deal.

-David


On Oct 19, 2006, at 7:09 AM, Walter Vaughan wrote:

> Florin Jurcovici wrote:
>
>> In the interview, Si Chen says we should tell him about reporting  
>> solutions. Here's one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports
>
> My mind may be extremely fuzzy about this, but has not the process  
> of moving under the Apache Foundation umbrella and license caused  
> the removal of jasperreport pieces that were already in the project?
>
> Yep.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ofbiz+remove+jasperreports
>
> Not that it directly affects the OpenTaps modules which are  
> released with a GNU style license.
>
> Eventually I'd like to get into the project a "Reports" tab that  
> would use Pentaho or something similar with a bunch of out of the  
> box reports.
>
> --
> Walter
>
>

[Mihai Berinde]

Yes, Si Chen is a smart guy plus his company is here in LA so I wanted
to use him for an ofbiz website cleanup but the marketing guys went with
another choice.  I have tried to activate the jasperreports in ofbiz and
work with a csv viewer but it's a pain.  It works fine for a standalone
plus it's got crosstab capabilities which I need.  You have to use
ireport as a front end as  it helps a lot.   Do you happen to know of a
good shopping cart backend -- I am testing zencart right now the thing
is we would like to use different templates for different categories or
multiple front end stores and zencart is not quite a fit.
Thanks,
Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Florin Jurcovici [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:42 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles

Hello.

In the interview, Si Chen says we should tell him about reporting
solutions. Here's one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports

Key features (from the site): integrated reports designer, report
designers available as Eclipse plugins, output into various formats
(PDF, HTML, XML, XLS, TXT, CSV), stores report definitions as XML, can
integrate virtually any data source and has built in interfaces to JDBC,
POJOs, EJB, XML as data sources, the report generation library is
embeddable and written in Java, allows scripting report definitions with
Groovy, additionally to the built in expressions syntax, requires no
dedicated reports server. Seems pretty much same-minded with ofbiz (XML,
Java, various integrations). Sounds pretty nice and powerful to me,
although I didn't try it out.

br,

--
Florin Jurcovici
------------------
Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:13:30 +0300, Ashish Vijaywargiya
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have read "Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles"
> and thought that it would be of interest for other community member so

> sharing the link of this interview over here.I hope everybody will
> like it.
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/interviews/si-chen-opentaps.html
>
> Regards
> Ashish Vijaywargiya
>
>  
> ---------------------------------
> Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com.  Check it out.

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[David E Jones-2]

A good shopping cart backend... have you looked at the stuff in  
OFBiz? I think it's pretty good, and so do quite a few other  
companies large (UAL, BT) and small (Gracious Style... ;) ) and  
everything in between.

-David


On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Mihai Berinde wrote:

> Yes, Si Chen is a smart guy plus his company is here in LA so I wanted
> to use him for an ofbiz website cleanup but the marketing guys went  
> with
> another choice.  I have tried to activate the jasperreports in  
> ofbiz and
> work with a csv viewer but it's a pain.  It works fine for a  
> standalone
> plus it's got crosstab capabilities which I need.  You have to use
> ireport as a front end as  it helps a lot.   Do you happen to know  
> of a
> good shopping cart backend -- I am testing zencart right now the thing
> is we would like to use different templates for different  
> categories or
> multiple front end stores and zencart is not quite a fit.
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florin Jurcovici [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:42 AM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles
>
> Hello.
>
> In the interview, Si Chen says we should tell him about reporting
> solutions. Here's one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports
>
> Key features (from the site): integrated reports designer, report
> designers available as Eclipse plugins, output into various formats
> (PDF, HTML, XML, XLS, TXT, CSV), stores report definitions as XML, can
> integrate virtually any data source and has built in interfaces to  
> JDBC,
> POJOs, EJB, XML as data sources, the report generation library is
> embeddable and written in Java, allows scripting report definitions  
> with
> Groovy, additionally to the built in expressions syntax, requires no
> dedicated reports server. Seems pretty much same-minded with ofbiz  
> (XML,
> Java, various integrations). Sounds pretty nice and powerful to me,
> although I didn't try it out.
>
> br,
>
> --
> Florin Jurcovici
> ------------------
> Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
>
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:13:30 +0300, Ashish Vijaywargiya
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have read "Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles"
>> and thought that it would be of interest for other community  
>> member so
>
>> sharing the link of this interview over here.I hope everybody will
>> like it.
>>
>> http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/interviews/si-chen-opentaps.html
>>
>> Regards
>> Ashish Vijaywargiya
>>
>>  
>> ---------------------------------
>> Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com.  Check it out.
>
>
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