Free reporting from the slopes software for linux

TAO project is a standards-compliant, real-time implementation of CORBA that provides efficient, predictable, and scalable quality of service (QoS) end-to-end.

Unlike conventional implementations of CORBA, which are inefficient, unpredictable, non-scalable, and often non-portable, TAO applies the best software practices and patterns to automate the delivery of high-performance and real-time QoS to distributed applications.

Over the past decade, my research group has worked with many collaborators on large-scale distributed application R&D projects in diverse domains, including command and control systems, telecom, datacom, medical engineering, distributed interactive simulations, and financial services. Regardless of the domain and application requirements, weve found that software developers wrestle with the same core infrastructure challenges. Key challenges focus on OS platform portability, connection management and service initialization, event demultiplexing and event handler dispatching, multi-threading and synchronization, fault detection and fault tolerance, and various quality-of-service (QoS) issues, such as controlling latency, throughput, and jitter end-to-end.

Unfortunately, its very costly, time consuming, and error-prone for researchers and developers companies to independently rediscover and reinvent ad hoc solutions to these core distributed application software development challenges. Fortunately, we have identified a relatively concise set of patterns and framework components that can be applied systematically to eliminate many tedious, error-prone, and non-portable aspects of developing and maintaining distributed applications.

A decade of intense R&D on these topics has yielded ACE, which is an object-oriented framework that implements many core patterns for concurrent communication software. We have applied the patterns and components in the ACE framework to develop The ACE ORB (TAO), which is our standards-based, CORBA middleware framework that allows clients to invoke operations on distributed objects without concern for object location, programming language, OS platform, communication protocols and interconnects, and hardware. TAO is designed using the best software practices and patterns that we have discovered in our work on ACE in order to automate the delivery of high-performance and real-time QoS to distributed applications.

Progress Report Manager project is a system for entering and sending school progress reports for teachers and parents.
The Progress Report Manager was built to alleviate problems experienced with traditional school progress reports.
Administrators create progress reports that are automatically sent via email.
Every week, teachers receive a message in their inbox reminding them that a new progress report has been created.
The teacher completes the progress reports online using a Web browser.
At the end of the week, the administrators click a button which sends email messages to every parent whose child received a report.
The parents can look at their students progress online and reply to teacher comments using response features.
Enhancements:
- inactivate students fixed
- help files fixed / modified / written
- report views fixed
- log files can be flushed
- semesters fixed

PDF::ReportWriter::Report is a Perl module with PDF::ReportWriter classes that represents a single report. It handles the conversions from/to XML to PDF::ReportWriter correct data structures, and can provide the data to be used in the report. XML::Simple module is used for data structures serialization to XML and restore.

This class is designed in a way that should be simple to be overloaded, and thus provide alternative classes that load reports in a totally different way, or supply data connecting automatically to a DBI DSN, or who knows...

USAGE:

The most useful usage for this class is through the PDF::ReportWriter::render_report() call. If you really want an example of usage of standalone Report object, here it is:

# Create a blank report object
my $report = PDF::ReportWriter::Report->new();
my $config;

# Load XML report definition
eval { $config = $report->load(/home/cosimo/myreport.xml) };
if( $@ ) {
# Incorrect xml file!
print Error in XML report:, $@, "n";
}

# Now save the report object to xml file
my $ok = $report->save($config);
my $ok = $report->save($config, Copy of report.xml);

Xblock reporter is a set of PHP and shell scripts to insert an exported report from an 8e6 Xstop R3000 appliance into a database, and then output that in a searchable web based format.

XBlock Reporter is a shell/PHP/MySQL front end to take the logs from an 8E6 Xstop appliance and store the data for searching/reporting.

BZbyte Reports provides a Web-based reporting solution.
BZbyte Reports is a reliable and easy-to-use reporting application that supports features expected from a reporting tool such as Crystal Reports, MS Access, Jasper, and iReports.
It is completely Web-based and uses dynamic HTML to provide a rich, interactive experience with a standard browser. The server software can be installed on a personal computer or shared on a network server.
Author:
Enhancements:
- This is a milestone release for Technical users.
- It demonstrates some of the new structure and functions but is not complete and is not yet usable for creating reports from end to end.
- This release is an overhaul of the 1.0 version.
- The next alpha release, at the end of October 2005, will allow creating reports from end to end along with many other features.
- Note: This release includes the tomcat app server.

Tiny Report is a free software that helps you to Design, Manage, and Deliver Reports for Extreme Business Insight.
It simply automates to production of dynamic PDFs. It allows you to design your templates in OpenOffice.
Main features:
The process
- Design your .SXW fie in OpenOffice,
- Use tiny_sxw2rml.py to convert the file in a .RML template,
- Use tiny_report.py to produce PDF file using any database.
Report Designer
- The report designer used is OpenOffice. All styles, tags and features of OpenOffice documents (.SXW) are implemented instead frames.
- No specific language to learn,
- Support style, colors, table, section, items, images, ...
- OpenOffice is not needed to render the PDF
Data Acquisition
- Support python expressions for effective computation,
- Browse through table with the object relationnal mapping,
- You do not have to code the database structure (introspection on the DB),
- You can create your own object and functions
- Lots of databases supported: MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Firebird, SybaseConnection, MAX DB
- Support all links between tables (one2many, many2one, ...),
- Lots of special features using simple Python: group, sort.
Report Renderer
- Fast, simple and easy,
- Standalone to be included in other applications.

Agata Report is a cross-platform database reporting tool with graph generation and a query tool that allows you to get data from PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, MS-SQL, Informix, InterBase, Sybase, or Frontbase and export that data as PostScript, plain text, HTML, XML, PDF, or spreadsheet (CSV) formats through its graphical interface.

You can also define subtotals, levels and a grand total for the report, merge the data into a document, generate address labels, or even generate a complete ER-diagram from your database.

Kexi Report Part is a reporting component for Kexi 1.6 based on OpenRPT 1.2.
Main features:
- A report viewer for Kexi
- An external report designer (KexiReportWriter) based on the OpenRPT writer program
Known Working Features
- Page Header
- Page Footer
- Report Header
- Report Footer
- Detail section
- Labels
- Lines
- Fields
- Page Browser
How To Create Report
1. Install the component following the instructions in INSTALL
2. Run KexiReportWriter to start designing a report
3. Select Database->Connect to DB
4. Browse to an existing Kexi Database and open it
5. Create a new report (File->New)
6. Assign a data source to the report (Document->Properties)
7. Create the report using labels/fields/lines
8. Assign columns to the field objects (Double click for properties)
9. Save the report. (Database->Save to DB)
10. Load the database in Kexi and double click the report to view it
Enhancements:
- Removed requirement to have kexi source available to install the plugin.Done this by including the needed kexi headers in the package. Only downside is that kexi 1.1.3 (from koffice 1.6.3) is required.