New Article: Highly Flexible and Easy-to-Develop Swing Reporting

Early in my software engineering career, I had several consulting positions working for fairly large companies where much of the work involved writing code to generate structured reports, or modifying existing software to customize reports that came with software the company had purchased or developed on their own. For large companies especially, back then (in the early 1980s), reports were a critical means for gaining insight into what was happening in the company with respect to orders, production, etc. Both overview looks and detailed views were needed. While I did less of that kind of work as time went on (switching to more purely scientific development), I did enough of it to see the evolution that brought more formal report generation tools into the market. These permitted generation of customized reports with much less effort from a software engineering team, sometimes enabling business analysts develop their own reports without intervention from developers. Still, data changes. And, the amount of data available to companies has enormously expanded. In a sense, this means that reporting tools are always playing catch up, since the more and varied types of data that is available to business managers, the more the reporting tools from the past become inadequate to the task. In our latest java.net article, author Malcolm Davis addresses the problem of reporting from Swing. Malcolm's article, Flexible Swing Reporting...

Date: March, 23 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2010/03/23/new-article-highly-flexible-and-easy-develop-swing-reporting

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