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What it is?
It is a 'bridge' component that allows one to load a Java Report Engine directly from Progress ABL.
What can you get from it?
It can be embedded in a Progress based application to provide powerful graphical reporting solution. You can take advantages of any of the powerful Java reporting engines in a pure Progress ABL environment.
What the advantages are?
You get the “business look” that you always wanted for all your reports in the Progress ABL environment.
Complete separation of business logic and presentation layers, not mixing report formatting withing your report data producing routines.
Graphical “what you see it's what you get” report designer at a glance.
What you can do with it?
Directly print or even preview reports from Progress ABL (for preview a graphical environment is required).
Export reports using a great number of document formats: PDF, Word, Excel (the complete list of supported export document formats depends on reporting engine used).
Print and export supports page range selection.
Access data from any database accessible through JDBC (including ABL business logic driver).
Can work with XML data passed directly from Progress client (either in-memory or file-based) – a Progress temp-table can be used as a data source.
Supports passing report parameters.
What Java reporting engines are supported?
For now only Jasper Report engine is fully supported, Birt support is in development... if you use other reporting engines and might be interested to have them supported please contact us.
It is a 'bridge' component that allows one to load a Java Report Engine directly from Progress ABL.
What can you get from it?
It can be embedded in a Progress based application to provide powerful graphical reporting solution. You can take advantages of any of the powerful Java reporting engines in a pure Progress ABL environment.
What the advantages are?
You get the “business look” that you always wanted for all your reports in the Progress ABL environment.
Complete separation of business logic and presentation layers, not mixing report formatting withing your report data producing routines.
Graphical “what you see it's what you get” report designer at a glance.
What you can do with it?
Directly print or even preview reports from Progress ABL (for preview a graphical environment is required).
Export reports using a great number of document formats: PDF, Word, Excel (the complete list of supported export document formats depends on reporting engine used).
Print and export supports page range selection.
Access data from any database accessible through JDBC (including ABL business logic driver).
Can work with XML data passed directly from Progress client (either in-memory or file-based) – a Progress temp-table can be used as a data source.
Supports passing report parameters.
What Java reporting engines are supported?
For now only Jasper Report engine is fully supported, Birt support is in development... if you use other reporting engines and might be interested to have them supported please contact us.