Background
“I am learning Java, and I find it really troublesome. Especially when I want to create a form, I have to write all the controls. So I ask all of you for help. Is there a Java web report development tool which can add control directly without writing so much boring code like Visual Basic [...]
Background
Since the birth of Java, it is always connected with all kinds of configuration files. Following the configuration habit of Java, the installation deployments of most pure Java products are troublesome.
As a result, programmers come from other programming language commonly feel unconformable and difficult with the environment configuration of Java.
Difficulties
A Java web reporting tool is [...]
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With the continual development of information technology, the web report application of enterprise-level reporting tool is also improved gradually. At first, it was stand-alone data operation, and on-line file processing later. Then, OA software appeared before the brilliant shining of standard financial software and QgESS software. After that, the concepts of business process reengineering appeared, [...]
Background
Designing web reports with traditional web reporting tools of control drag and drop style, we are often troubled by the alignment of gridlines. Especially when the web report has a multi-level complex report header, it has a huge workload and usually can not achieve a perfect effect.
With its unique spreadsheet design style, Excel avoids the [...]
Background
In the business of web input report, developers often need to design graphical interface for it.
If they have to use popular SSH structure (strust + spring + hibernate), the workload will be huge. Moreover, if they want to make it universal, it will be more difficult.
In this condition, I believe that programmers will miss those [...]
Nowadays, many reporting tools claim that they are Excel-like, and they support Excel-like report design after improvements. Then, what is a real Excel-like reporting tool?
Today, we will discuss this problem from two aspects.
1. What are the most basic functions a real Excel-like reporting tool should have? 2. According to the data characteristics of report, what [...]
Generally, Web reporting tool accounts for about 10% of a software development project. In recent 2 years, it showed an increasing trend. According to my own projects, the cost of Web reporting tool can reach 20% at most. However, in calculations below, we still use 10% as a standard, and assume the cost of each [...]
After making reports for a long time, I found something strange recently. Various reporting tool vendors advertise by all means to attract users’ attentions; however, programmers show great interests in Jasper report + ireport, the representatives of free and open source Java reporting software. You can find that it is discussed in full swing in [...]