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Big Faceless Report Generator project is a Java application for converting source documents written in XML to PDF.
Built on top of the Big Faceless PDF & Graph Libraries, the Report Generator combines these features and wraps an XML parser around them.
Using JSP, ASP, XSL, or similar, creating dynamic PDF documents directly from a database is now as easy as HTML.
Main features:
- HTML-style Tables - auto-sized nested tables with full control over padding, margins and borders
- Use cascading CSS2 stylesheets to control look and feel
- Create inline graphs and charts with XML, direct from the database
- Includes a servlet and a servlet filter for simple generation of PDFs from XML or JSP pages.
- Auto pagination of content with page headers and footers
- Familiar HTML syntax - < a >, < ul >, < p >, < table >, < td > and so on - simpler and faster than FOP
- All the features of our PDF library - Unicode support, Encryption, TrueType fonts, Barcodes and more

JFormDesigner makes Swing GUI design a real pleasure. JFormDesigner decreases the time you spend on hand coding forms, giving you more time to focus on the real tasks. Youll find that JFormDesigner quickly pays back its cost in improved GUI quality and increased developer productivity.
Main features:
- Easy and intuitive to use, powerful and productive: JFormDesigner provides an easy-to-use but powerful user interface. Even non-programmers can use it, which makes it also ideal for prototyping.
- JGoodies FormLayout and Clearthoughts TableLayout support: These well-known open source layout managers allow you to design high quality forms. JFormDesigner provides excellent support for them. FormLayout / TableLayout
- Advanced GridBagLayout support allows the specification of horizontal and vertical gaps (as in TableLayout). This makes it very easy to design forms with consistent gaps using GridBagLayout. No longer wrestling with GridBagConstraints.insets. Read More
- Column and row headers (for grid based layout managers) show the structure of the layout (including column/row indices, alignment, growing, grouping) and allow you to insert or delete columns/rows and change column/row properties. Its also possible to drag and drop columns/rows (incl. contained components and gaps). This allows you to swap columns or move rows in seconds. Read More
- Localization support: Localizing forms using properties files has never been easier. Specify a resource bundle name and a prefix for keys when creating a new form and then forget about it. JFormDesigner automatically puts all strings into the specified resource bundle (auto-externalizing). Read More
- Java code generator or runtime library: Either let JFormDesigner generate Java source code for your forms (the default) or use the royalty-free runtime library to load JFormDesigner XML files at runtime. Your choice.
- Generation of nested classes: The Java code generator is able to generate and update nested classes. You can specify a class name for each component in your form. This allows you to organize your source code in an object-oriented way. Read More

ElegantJ Charts Designer project is a fully functional XML template designer for ElegantJ Charts. With this easy-to-use intuitive tool you can design customized, dynamic, interactive 2D and 3D Java charts in less than 5 minutes!

Bundled with ElegantJ Charts Designer is a huge collection of ready-to-use XML templates, which can be used as is, or modified to suit your presentation requirements. ElegantJ Chart Designer eliminates the need to write hundreds of lines of your own source code or use third party IDEs.

Its point-and-click graphical user interface allows charts to be created quickly with an almost infinite degree of flexibility. With this easy-to-use intuitive tool, even a graphic designer can create visually rich, stimulating Java chart templates in less than 5 minutes! Almost all the elements of charts designer are customizable enabling you to display your data in best possible way. These XML templates then can be easily imported into your application, with a single line of source code.

Simply stated, you choose a Java chart component, browse through ready-to-use XML templates, select the template closest to your presentation requirements, fine tune properties in a truly WYSIWYG environment, and generate your customized XML template, ready to be used in your application.

This 100% Java tool is platform independent and provides state-of-the-art interoperability and integration options through XML templates.

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ReportMill project is the most powerful Java reporting tool available.
ReportMill is the best Java application reporting tool available for dynamically generating reports and web pages from Java applications in formats such as PDF, HTML, Flash, Excel and more.
ReportMill combines an easy-to-use page layout application and a powerful Java API in a single compact jar file, which is remarkably easy to integrate into your custom Java application.
Main features:
- Embedded Reporting
- Powerful Design Application
- Simple API
- Simple Integration
- PDF, HTML, Flash, Excel, Swing
- XML based template design
- Tables
- Table Groups (sub-reports)
- Graphing
- CrossTabs
- Labels
Embedded Reporting:
Running as Java code inside your application, ReportMill seamlessly harvests data directly from any Java dataset, whether EJBs, custom Java classes, Java Collection classes, JDBC ResultSets or any combination of these. This is much more efficient than traditional reporting tools, which often require developers to repackage existing Java datasets as the original SQL query, then force a redundant refetch and some potentially risky inter-process communication.
This architecture also provides unique access to custom business logic found in the developers object model, providing a significant savings by reusing this code instead of forcing a rewrite in proprietary template macro languages.
Powerful Design Application:
ReportMill is the only reporting tool built on top of a comprehensive page layout application (see PageStudio.com). This ensures that almost any page or report design can be accommodated and also makes template design more intuitive for anyone who has made a newsletter or "For Sale" sign in any of the popular page layout applications.
Simple API
Most developers need to call only three lines of ReportMill API. Since ReportMill harvests data from any Java dataset using reflection and common collections interfaces, there is no need to write any binding/feeder code, implement any interfaces or create any datasource objects.
// Load template from any Source (File, String path, InputStream, byte array, etc.)
RMDocument template = new RMDocument(aSource);
// Generate report with EJBs, custom classes, Java Collections, JDBC ResultSet, etc.
RMDocument report = template.generateReport(myJavaDataset);
// Get PDF (or HTML, Flash, Excel, XML, etc.)
byte pdf[] = report.getBytesPDF();
Simple Integration
All of ReportMill is contained in a single, compact Jar file, ReportMill.jar. Simply merge this with your application or copy it to the class path of your deployment machine and any application can generate a report from any Java code with any Java dataset.
XML based template design
Template design in ReportMill is easy: simply draw the elements of your report using the powerful page layout application. Data binding is simple and powerful - just drag and drop an XML file into an empty ReportMill document to get a keys browser. Drag and drop the keys from the browser to design dynamic parts of your report. Key substitution uses the familiar mail-merge paradigm (eg, "@myKey@"), making it easy to mix keys and text. Drag and drop "List Keys" (keys that represent a set of objects) to form tables, graphs or data matrices.
PDF, HTML, Flash, Swing, Excel Output and More
ReportMill supports more output formats than most other reporting tools. Other output formats include CSV, JPG, PNG and XML.

DB Visual ARCHITECT (DB-VA) offers software developers an excellent solution for database applications development. DB Visual ARCHITECT is an Object-Relational Mapping tool which provides an easy-to-use environment bridging between object model, data model and relational database.
DB-VA not only empowers you the visual modeling capability for performing both logical and physical data design, but also automates the roundtrip mapping between object model and data model.
Developers save enormous amounts of time using DB-VA to manage the coding of SQL and JDBC transparently with Plain Old Java Objects (POJO), as DB Visual ARCHITECT empowers software designers to perform roundtrip engineering of a relational database into a Class Diagram, and to an Entity Relationship Diagram and vise versa. Likewise designers can also create a database from entity relational models or class models visually on the fly.
DB-VA also generates a cost-effective, reliable, scalable and high-performance object to relational mapping layer. The generated mapping layer includes the support of transaction, cache and other optimized features. DB-VA increases the productivity and significantly reduces the risks of developing the relational mapping layer manually.
Main features:
Automate the Mapping Between Java Objects to RDBMS Tables
DB Visual ARCHITECT helps mapping between Java objects to relational database. This act not only preserves the data, but also the state, foreign/primary key mapping, difference in data type and business logic. Developers are no longer necessary to handle those tedious tasks.
Re-engineering Application Based on Legacy Database
DB Visual ARCHITECT allows you to reverse database (DB Reverse) tables through JDBC into UML models. You can form Class Diagram from the reversed models and redesign the legacy database without pain.
Multiple Database Support
DB Visual ARCHITECT promote easy migration between databases by enabling the same set of ORM Java objects to serve different databases. Besides, the tool help transforming proprietary data-type into one that suit the default database which is specified by user.
Well Proven Visual Modeling Technology
DB Visual ARCHITECT inherits the visual modeling environment from Visual Paradigm for UML, a well-known UML CASE Tool that provides intuitive inline editing for both Class Diagram and ERD. This truly what-you-see-is-what-you-get diagram editing facility reduces the effort and time in design the system.
Enhancements:
- Reverse engineering of ERD from DDL was introduced. ERD models like entities, views, and relationships can be generated by reversing the data definition language.
- Images can be incorporated into documentation.
- Documentation structure can be saved as a template for reuse in other models.
- Hibernate annotations are supported in ORM persistence.
- Hibernate version tags can be generated for optimistic concurrency control.
- There are also a number of enhancements for the modeling features.

TFORMer is a report generator and output solution that offers outstanding document layout and output features. The project combines the advantages of barcode labeling tools and sophisticated report generators into one unified and smart output solution.
Software developers benefit from TFORMer Runtime, which is a cross-platform reporting-engine that supports direct printing and PostScript, HTML, and PDF output with barcode support. Ready-to-use industry compliant forms (such as AIAG, VDA, DHL, UPS) are part of the package.
Enhancements:
- The overall printing and PDF/HTML output features were improved.
- Highlights include formatted text elements, embedded formulas and expressions, better barcode support, a new .NET and COM API (MONO is supported), Windows Vista support, an optimized PDF/HTML generator, automatic font size, movable/shrinkable/growing elements and printing areas, ODBC support, and better image support.