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JFree Chart Custom Tag update

Posted At : February 20, 2008 6:31 AM | Posted By : Gary Gilbert
Related Categories: Coldfusion,Open Source

A new version of the Jfree Chart custom tag is up on riaforge.

Added MX7 support which resulted in requiring a cacheDirectory to write the charts. Without the cfimage tag I had to create the ability to manage the images "manually" so added cacheDirectory and maxCacheSize attributes which does the management for you.

If someone out there still have a MX6 server where they can drop in the JFree jars into the CF class path and test it for me that would be great, also would be interested to see if it runs on Railo.

Happy Charting...

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Stepping into Open Source

Posted At : January 10, 2008 5:01 AM | Posted By : Gary Gilbert
Related Categories: Pentaho,Coldfusion,Open Source

Just before Christmas I took a course "Building Analytical Solutions with Pentaho" (If you haven't heard of Pentaho it's an open source Business Intelligence Suite). Of particular importance to the clients of the company I work for are the ETL and Reporting tools.

While I was a little disappointed in the class itself the suite of tools are quite impressive, what makes it even more interesting is the fact that it's opens source and free (They do have a variety of support options available).

Yesterday I started an integration exercise. Since the entire Pentaho suite is built with Java the question is how easy/difficult will it be to integrate the reporting engine into an existing Coldfusion Application, specifically the self service reporting.

This is going to prove to be an interesting learning experience for sure

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