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Windward Reports 16.1 API

Windward Reports.

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Packages 
Package Description
net.windward.datasource
This supplies a data source to Windward Reports.
net.windward.datasource.abstract_datasource  
net.windward.datasource.dom4j
This supplies an xml data source to Windward Reports.
net.windward.datasource.jdbc
This supplies a sql data source to Windward Reports.
net.windward.datasource.json  
net.windward.debug  
net.windward.env  
net.windward.env.printer  
net.windward.env.xml  
net.windward.format
Create the report using the builder pattern.
net.windward.format.htm
Create an html report using the builder pattern.
net.windward.format.htm.parse  
net.windward.format.pdf.output  
net.windward.format.pdf.output.exceptions  
net.windward.format.pdf.output.pdf  
net.windward.format.pdf.output.pdf.hyphenation  
net.windward.format.wordml
All classes for reading a WordML file (template) as well as the classes to create a WordML report using the builder pattern.
net.windward.tags
These are the classes that represent Windward Reports tags in the template.
net.windward.tools  
net.windward.util
Low-level utilities.
net.windward.xmlreport
The reporting-specific part of Windward Reports.
net.windward.xmlreport.xsnv.conditionalformatter  

Windward Reports.

Windward Reports is a fast, easy, and powerful system that allows you to quickly layout reports using Microsoft Word or Excel and then create reports in numerous output formats format using a SQL databse or an xml file for the data and the Word or Excel document you created as the report template.

How it Works

Very simply, with Windward Reports you lay out your report in Microsoft Word or Excel. In Word/Excel you use all of it's powerful layout and formatting properties to set exactly how you want the report to look.
Where you want data in the report, you type the following directly into the Word/Excel document "<wr:out select='/order/customer/first_name'/>". You can also put in a forEach/end, an if/end, and an if/else/end. In the case of a forEach/end, as it iterates through each element, inside the while you can have additional <wr:out .../> replacements.
Once you have created the report, it is saved. You then feed Windward Reports this template file and a datasource, and it then merges the data into the template and creates a final report, with all of the formatting and positioning as set in your original template. This final report can be written in numerous standard formats.
Elements are indentified within the <wr:out.../> commands using xpath or sql. So it is a very powerful and complete system available to specify what data to display, what data to enumerate through, and what order to enumerate in.

Using Windward Reports

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