Separated at birth
Recently I started a new project with a ton of reporting in it. I was excited to be able to the Coldfusion Report Builder. Certain requirements in the project forced me to move away from that and look for an alternative. After trying HTML exported via CFDOCUMENT and discarding it due to various known bugs there, I've arrived at JasperReports. If you're not familiar with it, JR is an open source Java-based report engine. The process of working with JR is much like CF Report. You create a report template, then process data with it to create a report. The report templates are written in XML (unlike the binary format in CF Report). The tool I've been using is iReport. And that's where things get weird. iReport is almost a feature-for-feature copy of iReport. So far I'm really liking it.About this entry
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- Published:
- Sep 12, 2007 / 8:06 PM
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- Coldfusion
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