A good Java installation package can make things much easier
- From: blue <abrahamachilles@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 22:04:56 -0700 (PDT)
Background
Since the birth of Java, it is always connected with all kinds of
configuration files. Following the configuration habit of Java, the
installation deployments of most pure Java products are troublesome.
As a result, programmers come from other programming language commonly
feel unconformable and difficult with the environment configuration of
Java.
Difficulties
A Java reporting tool is often composed of two parts, designer and
server. Commonly, they are independent programs.
As an independent tool, the installation deployment of report designer
is relatively simple.
It just needs an installation package. However, as it is pure Java, it
must depend on Java environment. As user's computer may have installed
a Java environment before, it does not want to install another during
the installation of designer. Moreover, the two may be of different
versions and conflict. Nevertheless, if you do not install a new one,
you have to write a configuration file to configure the installation
directory of Java.
As report server is often deployed on J2EE application server, its
installation deployment is more complex.
First, publish the report server as a war package. Second, configure
the database connection pool. Last, configure according to the
requirement of application. For example, RAQ Report needs to configure
semantic layer files, authorization files, log files, etc. For
application, it needs to configure application directory, port number,
etc.
Beside those above, there is another trouble, the joint of designer
and server.
As they both run independently, report made by designer needs to be
deployed to server, and this makes the development process
troublesome. Moreover, you can look over report in web page only after
deployment. As a result, users have to establish the web page
framework on server first. After that, they can design report and look
over the display effect. This increases the difficulty of fast usage
experience.
Solution
As a pure Java reporting tool, RAQ Report gives a more perfect
solution to installation package for users’ convenience. The main
advantages of it are as follows:
1. Integrate report designer and server. Users need not to develop any
server-side program, and they can look over the report made in
designer in web page directly. This makes fast experience easy for
users.
2. Being saved, designed report can be deployed to the application of
server directly. This increases the development speed by avoiding
secondary deployment.
3. After designing, it can generate a war package for deployment
directly. During the generation process, users can configure a series
of application parameters with a friendly interface. Such as semantic
layer files, authorization files, log files, etc.
4. The report designer supports simultaneous development of several
applications and it can start/stop several applications
simultaneously. As it has a plugin menu for all the applications,
users can click corresponding buttons easily. This helps users with
less development experience of Web applications a lot.
For more about RAQ Report, you can refer to http://www.raqsoft.com/category/product/overview/.
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