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The source code of this project has been moved to GitHub : https://github.com/humbletrader/katechaki
Until version 1.0, the next releases will still be published on SourceForge.

A new bugfix version for reportengine is available for download. This release covers:
Bugfixes:
1. All Table inputs closed

New features:
1. Improvements in the engine
2. Temporary files programatically deleted when the engine finishes ( this is server friendly)

a new release of reportengine is ready with the following bugfixex/new features:
ReportEngine 0.13.1

Bugfixes:
1. In case of an error the ReportOutput was not closed
2. Total string (calculator label) for pivot data was not shown in a pivot table
3. When closing the Pdf output the real errors were hidden by the fo transformation exception
4. The FlatTableBuilder and PivotTableBuilder constructors changed (not requesting a table input parameter)
5. All components aligned on center when displaying in html... read more

What's new in ReportEngine 0.13.0 ?

1. This release contains a complete change of architecture. Now the report is composed of components (some of which are FlatTable and PivotTable).
2. The new architecture encourages the users to write their own components (like graphs, paragraphs and anything you can think of).
3. The new architecture is focused mainly on freemarker with its multiple advantages but also with some drawbacks (one of them is that Excel native format has been lost, now only Excel xml is supported)

What's new in this release ?

• bugfix: the DefaultGroupColumn.Builder was always building columns based on the zero input column
• new feature: MovingAverage sample added in the samples project
• new feature: group calculators accept labels (ie. Total, Average, Count)
• new feature: managed OutputStream/Writer ( the lifecycle of the OutputStream can be controlled by the report api or from outside)

the changes included in this release:

• new feature: Html5Output added
• api changes: HtmlOutput deprecated
• api changes: all calculators renamed as GroupCalculators
• bugfix: wrong min computation when using UniversalMinCalculator

ReportEngine 0.10.0

• new feature: improved javadoc for all output classes
• new feature: if possible the output file is shows in the logs
• new feature: formatting changed. Now accepting String.format() instead of Format class
• new feature: calculators generified
• new feature : totals can be formatted
• new feature: improved tutorial ( sorting, formatting)... read more

New in this version:

• bugfix: Validation error when using FlatReport.Builder with no calculators
• all samples changed to use the new Builders
• all samples improved
• tutorial improved

New in this version:
-no longer needed to call two methods for sorting
- external sorting in CrosstabReport

• NullPointerException bug in AutoconfigReport when reading from TextInput
• Column Header Color bug in PdfOutput- fixed (consistent with all other output colors)
• All FO based output didn't accept UTF8 characters - fixed
• fluent builder for CrosstabReport, DefaultDataColumn, DefaultGroupColumn , DefaultHeaderRow, DefaultCrosstabData

This is a bugfix release:
1. SqlInput doesn't manage (open/close) external provided connections
2. Builders created for FlatReport/AutoconfigFlatReport
3. Sorting feature enabled for non-grouping columns

This is a bugfix release. The following bugs have been fixed:
- temporary files generated during report creation now are deleted on VM exit
- improved display of rows after totals

New in version 0.9.0:
- new output classes : PdfOutput, PngOutput, FoOutput
- XmlDomOutput removed
- new method outputTitle in ReportOutput
- group sorting: now there's no more required to have an ordered input. An external sorting is available via setGroupValuesSorted(false)
- fixed bug : showTotals had no effect

New in this version:

1. BUG: crosstab reports with more than one data column generated an IllegalArgumentError
2. improvement: border added to all html & pdf cells
3. improvemennt: small javadoc improvements
4. improvement: TxtOutput renamed as TextOutput to be aligned with the input system

Enjoy !

improvement: Input/Output system improved
improvement: FreemarkerOutput added
improvement: default theme for all reports changed
bug : horizontal alignment for data cells now taken into account

An improved version of report engine is now ready. The new features are:

1.StreamReportInput exception handling improved
2. StreamReportInput encoding added
3. StreamReportInput skipFirstXLines feature added
4. UTF support added to all output classes
5. Solved bug for Crosstab reports when more than one dataColumn is used
6. The jar file is much lighter than 0.4.1 as a result of the clean up

In about two weeks the new version will be ready. As new features:
- redesigned configuration description for Flat reports (grouping columns and data columns)
- completely redesigned crosstab reports
- easy to use java interfaces and abstract classes added for

new javadoc available
http://reportengine.sourceforge.net/html/apidocs/index.html

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/reportengine/index.php?title=Examples

The tutorial section has been improved.
Check http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/reportengine/index.php?title=Tutorial

Whils still working on the wiki , I uploaded the first beta version for the 0.3 release. Enjoy !

The report engine project now has a wiki space available at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/reportengine where I already started writing documentation/ examples for the coming 0.3 version

Now the project is hosted by subversion and built with maven.

The reportengine 0.2 beta 3 is now available.
Visit the download section.

Also the tutorial was improved and some examples were added .

Enjoy !

Another forward step was made today.
The full documentation will be provided in the next release (beta 1) soon .

Be prepared !

reportengine 0.2 early preview is available whithin the download section.
You can find documentation and a small tutorial here : http://reportengine.sourceforge.net/html/tutorial/index.html