James Taylor wrote:
>DataVision is my favorite among the java open source db reporting
>options. Though it is certainly missing some features it is further
>along than anything else _I_ have seen. Might be another nice project to
>put under this new umbrella (if you and any other authors are interested
>in participating in an apache community of course).
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That does look way cool. Its ASL'd and I think extending the invitation
would be good, but we should probably think about the db project's
scope. I would suggest that in addition to a dbcommons we have a
dbtools subproject. The scope of db/root level projects would be
general apis and server-side stuff and the scope of the dbtools
subproject of the db project would be various db tools. I mean there
are like hundreds of little TOAD like tools and query guis and etc. It
seems appropriate for them to be subgrouped for the purpose of
orthagonallity
-andy
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>>I just joined this group and have been lurking for a few days, trying to
>>figure out what the group is about. I'm the author of DataVision
>>(http://datavision.sourceforge.net), an Open Source project released under
>>the Apache license.
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>>Here's the standard DataVision blurb:
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>> "DataVision is a database reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports.
>> Reports can be viewed and printed from the application or output as
>> HTML, LaTeX2e, XML, DocBook, or tab- or comma-separated text files.
>> From the LaTeX2e and DocBook output files you can in turn produce PDF,
>> text, HTML, PostScript, and more.
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>> "Report descriptions are stored as XML files. This means you can not
>> only use the DataVision GUI, but you may also edit reports using your
>> favorite text editor.
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>> "DataVision is written in Java. It runs under Linux, Windows, various
>> flavors of BSD and Unix, and Mac OS X. It can generate reports from
>> Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Informix, hsqldb, Microsoft Access, and any
>> other database with available JDBC drivers."
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