You're reading from Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide Learn to use the power of Pentaho for Business Intelligence reporting in a series of simple, logical stages. From installation in Windows or Linux right through to publishing your own Java web application, it's all here.

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782162247

Length 342 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Pentaho

Concepts

Data Processing

Author (1):

Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. What is Pentaho Report Designer? FREE CHAPTER

2. Installation and Configuration

3. Start PRD and the User Interface (UI) Layout

4. Instant Gratification – Creating Your First Report with PRD

5. Adding a Relational Data Source

6. Adding Groups

7. Adding Parameters

8. Using Formulas in Our Reports

9. Adding Charts

10. Adding Subreports

11. Publishing and Running Reports in Pentaho BA Server

12. Making a Difference – Reports with Hyperlinks and Sparklines

13. Environment Variables, Stylesheets, and Crosstabs

14. PRD Reports Embedded in Web Applications

A. Sakila DB Data Dictionary

B. Pop Quiz Answers

Index

Chapter 14. PRD Reports Embedded in Web Applications

At this stage, with the amount of knowledge we have of Pentaho Report Designer (PRD), we can confidently say we are fairly good PRD developers.

This chapter attempts at taking not only one step forward with PRD, but many.

Once this chapter is finished and the concepts presented here are understood, we will be able to create a web portal that allows users to access PRD reports, send parameters to them, and select the final presentation format.

We will also be able to perform every configuration needed to have the portal working as well as have it packaged so that we can transport it and deploy it in a different environment with little modification.

In this chapter we will do the following:

We will explain what Java Platform Enterprise Edition (JEE) is and its main components.
We will explain what Apache Tomcat is. We will download it, install it, configure it, and start it.
We will explain what Eclipse and Eclipse Web Tools...

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