Re: ReportMill Alternatives?
Re: ReportMill Alternatives?
- Subject: Re: ReportMill Alternatives?
- From: arturo <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 11:24:11 -0500
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kieran Kelleher" <email@hidden>
To: "email@hidden:WebObjects" <email@hidden>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 9:45 AM
Subject: ReportMill Alternatives?
> The sales pitch on ReportMill indicates it to be a very slick extension
> to WebObjects.
> http://www.reportmill.com/
>
> However, the price tag is outside my current "startup" budget. So, if
> there any open source products out there that offer similar/same
> functionality? .... or is this stuff easy to do in WebObjects anyway
> using WO Builder?
>
This isn't the sort of thing that appeals to the open source developers.
Then again I'm probably wrong about that. You have already calculated
what it will cost to develop your own versus buying ReportMill? Opportunity
costs and all like that?
In any case, if you can express your data as XML then you might be able to
do something using with XSL Formatting Objects. Something like
http://xml.apache.org/fop/
Here's a tutorial for an FO processor. It should give you a flavor of
whether
FO can do what you want. Please let us know what you end up with.
-arturo
http://webobjects.meetup.com/
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