Copyright © Team #4 CSCI 6838 Spring 20071 Ad Hoc Graphical Reports CSCI 6838.2 Research Project and Seminar Team #4 March 1, 2007

Copyright © Team #4 CSCI 6838 Spring 2007

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Ad Hoc Graphical Reports

CSCI 6838.2 Research Project and Seminar

Team #4

March 1, 2007


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Team Information Advisor:

• Dr. Kwok-Bun Yue [email protected] Mentors:

• Abbasi Dhilawala [email protected]• Scott Hetherington [email protected]

Team Members:• Prathyusha Patinjaryil [email protected]• Nikhila Chilkamarri [email protected]• Augustine Patil [email protected]• Abdul Hafeez Khan [email protected]


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Customer Information

Tietronix Software, Inc• Full-service provider of custom software applications

and advanced technology solutions• Tie Flow Software for NASA JSC

Contacts:• Abbasi Dhilawala [email protected]• Scott Hetherington [email protected]

Website: www.tietronix.com


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Table of Contents Project Overview Nikhila Project Requirements Nikhila Tasks Nikhila Design & Implementation Prathyusha Current Ad Hoc Tool Augustine JasperReports Augustine BIRT Augustine Implementation Challenges Abdul


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Table of Contents

Refinement Abdul Conclusions & Future Work Abdul Project Timeline Abdul Development Team Abdul References Abdul


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Project Overview

The main goal of the project is to provide the existing report generator with graphical display capability

The tools used to generate these reports are • JasperReports

• BIRT

Both JasperReports and BIRT take XML input which is the report definition file


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Project Overview

Technologies:• JAVA

• XML

• JBoss

• SQL Server 2005


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Project Requirements Initial project requirements

• XML translator to accept Ad Hoc report definition XML• XML translator then produces XML report definition in

Jasper or BIRT format

Present project requirements • Modify the Ad Hoc reporting tool to generate XML

report definition• This XML report definition must be understood by

Jasper or BIRT engines


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Tasks

Learn the Existing System

Learn the tools Jasper and BIRT

Learn the XML’s accepted by the Jasper and BIRT engines


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Design & Implementation

Architectural Diagram Class Diagram Use Case Diagram Sequence Diagram

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Architecture Diagram Java

Capstone

Existing GUI

Current GUI

Data

Tabular Output

JasperBIRT

Ad Hoc Reporting Tool

Jasper XML/ jrxmlBIRT XML

Graphical Output Graphical Output


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Use Case Diagram

Report Viewer

Administrator

Ad Hoc Graphical Reports

Generates the Area of Interest

Sets the BIRT/JASPER charts to user

Select the Area Of Interest,

Select options forthe report

Select the Chart and Give input parameters for chart

View Graphical Report

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+getAreaOfInterest();

+setAreaOfInterest();

+setDataSource();

+getDataSource();

…………..

……………..

+getReportResults();

ReportDefinition

AreaOfInterest

Datasource, querry, versionnumber,…..

mCategory, mLabel, vColumn, vjoinConditions..

+getColumnReference(String columnQName);

+getTableReference(String tableQName);

+getReportDatabases();

ReportManager

<<Interface>>Report Charts

+getAvailableCharts();

+setparam(String paramName, object paramValue);+getparam(String paramName):Object+CreateChartXML():String+getParamChartType(String ChartType);+viewopchart(String XMLloc ):image

ReportChart rc; +rc.setChartType(String ChartName, cvalue); +rc.getChartType(String Chartname): Chart +rc.getAvailableCharts();+rc. setparam(String paramName, object paramValue);+rc.getparam(String paramName):Object+rc.getParamChartType(String ChartType);+rc.viewopchart(String XML loc):imageJasper BIRT

<<Implements>>

<<Implements>>

paramName, chart types, paramValue……

paramName, charttypes, paramValue……

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Report Viewer

ReportManager

Report Charts

Report Definition

Area OfInterest

request AOI request AOI

generate AOIforward AOI to Report Viewer

Admin

Sets Jasper/BIRT

charts

Request chartsGive available

charts

Returns tabular data info

Returns Java object with tabular output

Creates the chart XML & returns

output

Returns set of available charts

Presents the available charts

Select chart and give input

parameters

Accept the input

parameters

Output chart

ready in HTML


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The Current Ad Hoc Tool


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The Current Ad Hoc Report


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Jasper Reports

JasperReports is a powerful open source Java reporting tool that has the ability to deliver rich GRAPHICAL content onto the screen, to the printer or into PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV and XML files.

Available Charts in Jasper:


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BIRT

BIRT is an open source Eclipse-based reporting system that integrates with your Java/J2EE application to produce compelling Graphical reports.

Available Charts in BIRT:


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How To Do: A very basic Diagram

Java CodeRuntime

Jasper / BIRTEngine

Graphical Report

Current Tool

Generated Jasper / BIRT understood XML


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Implementation Challenges

Identifying the correct JDK version to run the pre-compiled classes in the deployment package

JBoss Application Server – outdated jar file was provided (jtds 0.9 to jtds 1.2)

Current tool required SQL Server Authentication (not the default Windows Authentication) for connecting to the database

SQL Server 2005 Network Configuration has TCP/IP protocol disabled by default - which needed to be enabled


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Refinement According to Initial requirements, the XML part needed modification

TieFlow Data Data Formatting in Report XML Report

formatted data

Requirements were refined to bypass the XML.

Factory Method design is used.


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Conclusion and Future Work

The required classes to be extended have been identified

Sequential flow of the process is well understood

Understanding the XML format. More research on the existing package is needed

Developing the required classes

Modifying the User Interface


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Project Timeline


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Development TeamTeam Leader: Prathyusha Patinjaryil

Research & Design: All

Webmaster: Augustine Patil Abdul Hafeez

Database Administrator: Nikhila Reddy Chilkamarri

Testing & Debugging: All

Developers: All

Documentation: All


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References

JBoss At Work, http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/03/01/InstallingJBoss.html

Reporting in JAVA using JasperReports http://members.lycos.co.uk/oderin/tutorials/JavaReporting/JavaR http://jasperforge.org/sf/projects/jasperintelligence http://

www.jasperforge.org/index.php?option=com_joomlaboard&Itemid=215&func=showcat&catid=9 http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2002/jw-0920-opensourceprofile.html

BIRT http://www.eclipse.org/resources/ http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/07/26/deploying-birt.html http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=EclipseBRT


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