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Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles
Hi,
I have read "Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles" and thought that it would be of interest for other community member so sharing the link of this interview over here.I hope everybody will like it.
http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/interviews/si-chen-opentaps.html
Regards
Ashish Vijaywargiya
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Re: Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles
Posted by David E Jones <jo...@undersunconsulting.com>.
Thanks for the heads up Ashish. It was an interesting read... a bit
of a peek into Si's history and ideas.
Could someone throw together a patch to list this on the ofbiz.org
home page?
-David
On Oct 18, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Ashish Vijaywargiya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have read "Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles"
> and thought that it would be of interest for other community member
> so sharing the link of this interview over here.I hope everybody
> will like it.
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/interviews/si-chen-opentaps.html
>
> Regards
> Ashish Vijaywargiya
>
>
> ---------------------------------
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Re: Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles
Posted by David E Jones <jo...@undersunconsulting.com>.
Please note: if JasperReports is a good solution (which it hasn't yet
proven to be), then we can and actually do (I think) include reports
written in Jasper in OFBiz.
The only thing we can't do is distribute the JasperReports jar files.
That means the installation process for OFBiz is slightly more
complicated, but it's not that big of a deal.
-David
On Oct 19, 2006, at 7:09 AM, Walter Vaughan wrote:
> Florin Jurcovici wrote:
>
>> In the interview, Si Chen says we should tell him about reporting
>> solutions. Here's one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports
>
> My mind may be extremely fuzzy about this, but has not the process
> of moving under the Apache Foundation umbrella and license caused
> the removal of jasperreport pieces that were already in the project?
>
> Yep.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ofbiz+remove+jasperreports
>
> Not that it directly affects the OpenTaps modules which are
> released with a GNU style license.
>
> Eventually I'd like to get into the project a "Reports" tab that
> would use Pentaho or something similar with a bunch of out of the
> box reports.
>
> --
> Walter
>
>
Re: Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles
Posted by Walter Vaughan <wv...@steelerubber.com>.
Florin Jurcovici wrote:
> In the interview, Si Chen says we should tell him about reporting
> solutions. Here's one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports
My mind may be extremely fuzzy about this, but has not the process of moving
under the Apache Foundation umbrella and license caused the removal of
jasperreport pieces that were already in the project?
Yep.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ofbiz+remove+jasperreports
Not that it directly affects the OpenTaps modules which are released with a GNU
style license.
Eventually I'd like to get into the project a "Reports" tab that would use
Pentaho or something similar with a bunch of out of the box reports.
--
Walter
Re: Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles
Posted by David E Jones <jo...@undersunconsulting.com>.
A good shopping cart backend... have you looked at the stuff in
OFBiz? I think it's pretty good, and so do quite a few other
companies large (UAL, BT) and small (Gracious Style... ;) ) and
everything in between.
-David
On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Mihai Berinde wrote:
> Yes, Si Chen is a smart guy plus his company is here in LA so I wanted
> to use him for an ofbiz website cleanup but the marketing guys went
> with
> another choice. I have tried to activate the jasperreports in
> ofbiz and
> work with a csv viewer but it's a pain. It works fine for a
> standalone
> plus it's got crosstab capabilities which I need. You have to use
> ireport as a front end as it helps a lot. Do you happen to know
> of a
> good shopping cart backend -- I am testing zencart right now the thing
> is we would like to use different templates for different
> categories or
> multiple front end stores and zencart is not quite a fit.
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florin Jurcovici [mailto:flj@mail.dnttm.ro]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:42 AM
> To: ofbiz-user@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles
>
> Hello.
>
> In the interview, Si Chen says we should tell him about reporting
> solutions. Here's one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports
>
> Key features (from the site): integrated reports designer, report
> designers available as Eclipse plugins, output into various formats
> (PDF, HTML, XML, XLS, TXT, CSV), stores report definitions as XML, can
> integrate virtually any data source and has built in interfaces to
> JDBC,
> POJOs, EJB, XML as data sources, the report generation library is
> embeddable and written in Java, allows scripting report definitions
> with
> Groovy, additionally to the built in expressions syntax, requires no
> dedicated reports server. Seems pretty much same-minded with ofbiz
> (XML,
> Java, various integrations). Sounds pretty nice and powerful to me,
> although I didn't try it out.
>
> br,
>
> --
> Florin Jurcovici
> ------------------
> Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
>
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:13:30 +0300, Ashish Vijaywargiya
> <to...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have read "Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles"
>> and thought that it would be of interest for other community
>> member so
>
>> sharing the link of this interview over here.I hope everybody will
>> like it.
>>
>> http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/interviews/si-chen-opentaps.html
>>
>> Regards
>> Ashish Vijaywargiya
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>> Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.
>
>
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RE: Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles
Posted by Mihai Berinde <MB...@natrol.com>.
Yes, Si Chen is a smart guy plus his company is here in LA so I wanted
to use him for an ofbiz website cleanup but the marketing guys went with
another choice. I have tried to activate the jasperreports in ofbiz and
work with a csv viewer but it's a pain. It works fine for a standalone
plus it's got crosstab capabilities which I need. You have to use
ireport as a front end as it helps a lot. Do you happen to know of a
good shopping cart backend -- I am testing zencart right now the thing
is we would like to use different templates for different categories or
multiple front end stores and zencart is not quite a fit.
Thanks,
Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: Florin Jurcovici [mailto:flj@mail.dnttm.ro]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:42 AM
To: ofbiz-user@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles
Hello.
In the interview, Si Chen says we should tell him about reporting
solutions. Here's one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports
Key features (from the site): integrated reports designer, report
designers available as Eclipse plugins, output into various formats
(PDF, HTML, XML, XLS, TXT, CSV), stores report definitions as XML, can
integrate virtually any data source and has built in interfaces to JDBC,
POJOs, EJB, XML as data sources, the report generation library is
embeddable and written in Java, allows scripting report definitions with
Groovy, additionally to the built in expressions syntax, requires no
dedicated reports server. Seems pretty much same-minded with ofbiz (XML,
Java, various integrations). Sounds pretty nice and powerful to me,
although I didn't try it out.
br,
--
Florin Jurcovici
------------------
Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:13:30 +0300, Ashish Vijaywargiya
<to...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have read "Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles"
> and thought that it would be of interest for other community member so
> sharing the link of this interview over here.I hope everybody will
> like it.
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/interviews/si-chen-opentaps.html
>
> Regards
> Ashish Vijaywargiya
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.
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Re: Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles
Posted by Florin Jurcovici <fl...@mail.dnttm.ro>.
Hello.
In the interview, Si Chen says we should tell him about reporting
solutions. Here's one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports
Key features (from the site): integrated reports designer, report
designers available as Eclipse plugins, output into various formats (PDF,
HTML, XML, XLS, TXT, CSV), stores report definitions as XML, can integrate
virtually any data source and has built in interfaces to JDBC, POJOs, EJB,
XML as data sources, the report generation library is embeddable and
written in Java, allows scripting report definitions with Groovy,
additionally to the built in expressions syntax, requires no dedicated
reports server. Seems pretty much same-minded with ofbiz (XML, Java,
various integrations). Sounds pretty nice and powerful to me, although I
didn't try it out.
br,
--
Florin Jurcovici
------------------
Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:13:30 +0300, Ashish Vijaywargiya
<to...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have read "Interview with Si Chen from opentaps by Colin Charles" and
> thought that it would be of interest for other community member so
> sharing the link of this interview over here.I hope everybody will like
> it.
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/interviews/si-chen-opentaps.html
>
> Regards
> Ashish Vijaywargiya
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.