DataVision (http://datavision.sourceforge.net) is an Open Source reporting
tool similar to Crystal Reports. Reports can be designed using a
drag-and-drop GUI. They may be run, viewed, and printed from the
application or exported as HTML, XML, PDF, LaTeX2e, DocBook, or tab- or
comma-delimited text files. The output files produced by LaTeX2e and
DocBook can in turn be used to produce PDF, text, HTML, PostScript, and
more.
DataVision is written in Java. It uses Ruby for the formula and scripting
language.
Changes:
- Greatly reduced memory requirements and startup time for large
databases by only loading column metadata from database when needed.
Bug fixes:
-
Added missing jar files to datavision.sh and datavision.bat.
-
Formulas can now “see” columns that are contained within Ruby "#{…}"
expressions. -
Fixed bug when looking for columns within expressions.
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Jim Menard, jimm@io.com, http://www.io.com/~jimm/
“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc
informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.”
– Greenspun’s Tenth Rule of Programming