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Switft Justice - 30 silver coins well invested ..
With the introduction of the new ODF-based file-format in Version 0.8.10 of the Reporting-Engine, the Simple-XML file-format and the Extended-XML file-format will be deprecated now. The reporting engine will still be able to understand these ... |
21-Mar-2008 11:06:37 |
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Strategies for building Extension-APIs
When writing extension-APIs, the designer usually has two general choices: The plugin approach: The system can provide a plugin point where external code takes over control and (re)configures the system The declarative approach: The system ... |
17-Mar-2008 20:13:00 |
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Unified Fileformat Fallout: Report Element Attributes
One of the few classes that has not changed much since ages is the "Element" class. The element defines the smallest building block of a report definition. Elements carry style-information and data. If the element is a band, it carries no data ... |
27-Feb-2008 18:54:00 |
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Spotlight on caching: LibLoader
When the Classic-Engine was started, we did not care much about resource-loading. Resource-loading patterns is what happens to other people, not us. When a resource was needed, we simple wrote some code to load the resource in place. We lived our happ... |
02-Jun-2007 09:36:00 |
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Things that should never have existed in the first place
Pentaho Reporting never had real charting support. Although JFreeChart, the reference project for Java-based charting, was developed next door, we never came to the point where users could have added charts to a report. The engine itself is able t... |
31-Mar-2007 20:22:00 |