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A new release is in the making. It will include many bug fixes, as well as a few new features. These features will be datapaging, transactions and better form handling.

The path to IDRS 2.0 and a full fledged web development platform is as follows:

2.0 alpha 4
To be realsed in the next couple of days will include:
1. Encrypted Passwords
2. New form building and handling techniques through the <formInput> tags
3. A plugable resource managment system with the inclusion of the Jakarta-Commons pooling system
4. The ability to sperate databases better with supporting for sepperating the authentication db and the docs db.
5. More tutorials, including a new tutorial on creating business logic in the idrs
6. An easier setup wth the inclusion of all jars to be used by the idrs and a base web.xml file
7. The release of the new idrs web site... read more

Hello everyone. I am prooud to announce that two new RML tags have been
added to help working with HTML forms.

The first tag is the <yesno> tag. This tag allows for the easy creation
of Yes/No option choices. The tag not only generates a set of input
tags, but also allows for the value of that tag to come from a request
parameter, a database field or an object property. It will also allow
for the value to allways come from a parameter first when it should be
comming from a db or property. This makes form processesing much easier
as there is no need to manually check or load form values. for
instance, the following tag:... read more

The IDRS is currently building a new website. This new web site will have a better interface and new information. check out the continuing project at http://idrs.sourceforge.net/newsite/

The current development code for the idrs is now in cvs! The module is Idrs (not IDRS or idrs, sorry).

The latest IDRS is out!!! Included in the new version is improved stability, data input, embeded scripting and a whole bunch of other features!

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/idrs/

IDRS 1.4 has been released! This latest version includes the ability to break up data over multiple pages and the ability to use java classes inside of RML pages.

I knwo it's been a while since the last release of the IDRS, but this one is worth the wait. The new IDRS has two new major features: the ability to extend functionality through java classes and the ability to setup automatic data-caching and paging. The next release will be later this week.

Marc Boorshtein

The newest release of the IDRS is here!

The next release of the IDRS will come next monday (6/12/00)

This minor release of the IDRS takes away the case sensitivity for the IDRS' RML parser. RML tags are no longer case sensitive nor do atributes have to have a space between the atribute name the equals and the value.

An Instalation note was accidently ommitted from the documentation. A trash dirrectory must be added to the IDRS web application dirrectory. I apoligize for the confusion and thank you for your cooperation. The updated instalation procedure will be placed in the patch manager.

The newest version of the IDRS has been released. The new version fixes a typo-bug that wouldn't allow the IDRS to connect to any DB but postgreSQL. It also includes full DB Connection pooling by allowing pools to be set up for use by reports. This will cut down on the overhead caused by creating a new DB connection everytime a new report is generated. Finally the InsertIntoIDRS class allows for easy updateing of and insertion into the tblDoc tbale of the IDRS DB.

I forgot to mention in the documentation that the javaexchange's DbConnectionBroker class needs to be installed in order for the IDRS to work. You can download this class from http://www.javaexchange.com/ or from the IDRS ftp site.

The Internet Document and Report Server 1.0 has been released. This is the first build that may be used in production web sites to be released. This release includes db connection pooling to the IDRS database. Included in the compressed files are all of the compiled class files, sourcecode and full documentation.

I have just completed the initial release of the FULL IDRS, including secure and insecure servlets, security mdule and RML parser!!! This release should come withing the week.
Marc Boorshtein

The RML specification and the IDRSReport parser have been released, along with a test class as an example on how to use it.

I am sorry that there has been no code released yet. I am not releasing the source code until I have completed the initial version of the IDRS. This will occur within the next couple of weeks. With this will be the realease of the web site as well. When this occurs there will be two releases:
1. IDRS Source code. This includes all of the code used to build the IDRS.
2. Reporting Markup Language (RML) Specification. This is the markup used to build templates that are then processed by the IDRS.... read more