[Tutor] python and java report writers
John
jfabiani at yolo.com
Tue Aug 18 00:50:45 CEST 2009
On Monday 17 August 2009 01:08:15 pm Oxymoron wrote:
> (Posting to list!)
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:01 AM, John<jfabiani at yolo.com> wrote:
> > 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
I don't know enough about jython to understand what has to be done. Let's say
I can write the code to retrieve the data in cPython. And I can write a
module in jython that will accept the data passing it on to the report
writer. How can I call the jython program? It can't be called from the
cPython program - right? So the jython runs stand alone - right?
IPC = Inter-process communication - right? Does that mean I need to write
some sort of server?
Johnf
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