XTRACT4J / News: Recent posts

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CHANGES FROM 2.2 to 2.3
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- Add APPLICATIONS MODE connection; add fndext.zip from Oracle
- User-selectable Responsibility dialog for EBS queries
- Add feature that output file will be opened when process is finished (OPEN_OUTPUT parameter)
- Add "Test Connection" button to verify the connection parameters
- Show Error dialog box for data validation
- Add chart support for XDO processing
- Add changable Look-and-Feel support (SYMPLIK.LNF parameter)
- Add personalization features that some of the GUI components can be hidden
- Add i18n supports in the GUI (SYMPLIK.LANG parameter)
- Remove dependency on JGoodies Look-and-Feel library due to I18N issue
(CJK characters shown as block unless hardcoding the font name)
- Some minor bug fixes... read more

After a couple of month of development, XTRACT4J V2.3 finally released. A new Look and Feel and tighter integration with Oracle EBS, but it should work with standard Oracle database, this release is a major milestone of this report generation tool.

V2.2 New features:

* XML Publisher processing - you can use the XML file generated by
XTRACT4J to integrate with Oracle XML-publisher RTF template to create PDF output.

* Barcode image support - you can generate PDF file with 1D and 2D barcode images.

* Oracle Applications session settings - if your query contains Oracle 11i/R12 language-specific views and organization-specific view, you can use this setting to extract data.

Version 2.1 is an enhancement release of Version 2.0. New functionality -- Input XML file can embed SQL query so that only this file is required for the operation. This feature can eliminate the use of Query XML file and make the XTRACT4J input file self-contained.

XTRACT4J 2.0 is the stand-alone, self-contained version of XTRACT4J. It is pure java program which can execute independent and dependent (nested) queries aganist Oracle database and create XML files. It also provides XSL transformation for the final XML file; post processing hook to do whatever you want to this XML file (e.g. FTP to other place, send e-mail, etc).

Both GUI version and command-line version are provided. You can easily incorporate this program to any shell script and sechdule to be executed.... read more