Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact db-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list db@apache.org Received: (qmail 90782 invoked from network); 9 May 2002 14:51:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (167.206.216.190) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 9 May 2002 14:51:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 4637 invoked from network); 9 May 2002 14:51:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.3.1.126?) (127.0.0.1) by 127.0.0.1 with SMTP; 9 May 2002 14:51:15 -0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 10:51:13 -0400 Subject: Re: Hello From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3CDA7CDF.8030107@apache.org> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On 5/9/02 9:42 AM, "Andrew C. Oliver" wrote: > 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). >> >> -- jt >> >> > 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. I don't think we need two - we can call the 'commons' 'tools', which I like better anyway, but not sure two are really needed - the scope of commons/tools would be analogous, namely 'smaller' bits. > 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. There is no "server-side" constraint, right? I think an open source TOAD would be awesome and that's not "server-side". >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 But we have to be careful - we don't want this to be 'db sourceforge'. I think we need to keep a very high standard for entry. We can't accumulate drek. > > -andy > >> >> >>> 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. >>> >>> Here's the standard DataVision blurb: >>> >>> "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. >>> >>> "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. >>> >>> "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." >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- Geir Magnusson Jr. Research & Development, Adeptra Inc. geirm@adeptra.com +1-203-247-1713