[Tutor] python and java report writers

[Oxymoron]

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On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:01 AM, John<jfabiani at yolo.com> wrote:
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> First I love your handle.  And second, thanks for taking the time to explain

:-)

> jython world.  But I was really looking for a simple way of calling a report
> writer (like using a com object) to print a report.  At this point in the
> project changing to jython is not going to be considered.  We are using to
> many modules and I'm sure we will run into something.

I wasn't suggesting changing everything to Jython - I actually meant
something similar, i.e. write the reporting component in Jython (this
really depends on where you get your data from I suppose, if it's all
code generated may be more tricky, but for a DB-based thing, not so).
You could then treat the jython/java mini-reporting-app as a blackbox.
It's not COM perhaps, but plain IPC should do.

> It looks like we are stuck with either reportlab or using something like
> openoffice's uno.

They may be a simpler solution if it amounts to the same thing.

-- Kamal

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