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Pentaho 8 Reporting for Java Developers

By : Jasmine Kaur, Francesco Corti
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Pentaho 8 Reporting for Java Developers

By: Jasmine Kaur, Francesco Corti

Overview of this book

This hands-on tutorial, filled with exercises and examples, introduces the reader to a variety of concepts within Pentaho Reporting. With screenshots that show you how reports look at design time as well as how they should look when rendered as PDF, Excel, HTML, Text, Rich-Text-File, XML, and CSV, this book also contains complete example source code that you can copy and paste into your environment to get up-and-running quickly. Updated to cover the features of Pentaho 8, this book will teach you everything you need to know to build fast, efficient reports using Pentaho. If your interest lies in the technical details of creating reports and you want to see how to solve common reporting problems with a minimum of fuss, this is the book for you.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

The advanced data source


Advanced data sources require advanced knowledge and skills, so only a high-level overview of each advanced data source is given in this section.

Scriptable

The scriptable data source lets the developer develop a source code generating a dataset in various languages. As in the previous data sources, you can create multiple queries and manage the addition/deletion of queries.

External

The external data source is used when a report is used in .xaction. You can refer to the official documentation for the (few) documents about this data source. Pentaho action sequence XML documents (.xaction) define activities such as database queries, report generation, and email actions, and the order in which they occur.

Sequence generator

The sequence generator develops a sequence to be used in your report. As in previous data sources, you can create multiple queries and manage the addition/deletion of queries. For each query, you can define the group (numeric or system), the sequence...