Definitive

Scott Preston works as a technical architect for a large Columbus consulting firm where he resides with his lovely wife, Emily. Scott has over 15 years of software and electrical experience including positions with The U.S. Navy, Bank One, UUNET, and Covansys Inc., in addition to running his own robotics company, Preston Research LLC, where he gives robotic lectures in conjunction with COSI (Center of Science and Industry) and manufactures small Java-enabled robots called CubeBots®.

The definitive guide to state-of-the-art XML publishing with XSL-FO!

XSL-FO (XSL-Formatting Objects) enables enterprise applications to publish graphic-arts quality printed and electronic documents from any XML data store, no matter how large or complex. In Definitive XSL-FO, one of the world’s leading XML experts shows how XSL-FO is revolutionizing document publishing. The book offers concise, authoritative, example-rich guidance on using the entire XSL-FO specification, including:

XSL-FO’s objectives, semantics, and vocabulary
Key concepts, including layout-based versus content-based formatting, and formatting versus rendering
Area and page fundamentals: area models, block and inline basics, containers, page definition, and sequencing
Generic body constructs and tables
Static content and page geometry sequencing
Footnotes, floats, breaks, keeps, spacing, borders, and backgrounds
Interactive objects for dynamic displays
Supplemental publishing objects, including bidirectional Unicode scripts
Using XSLT with XSL-FO
Includes powerful quick reference tables for XSL-FO expressions, objects, and properties

Part of The Charles F. Goldfarb Definitive XML Series™

JasperForge.org is the open source development portal for the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, the JasperSoft Business Intelligence solution that delivers comprehensive tools for data access, data integration, analysis, and reporting, including JasperReports. This definitive, authoritative covers the following:

• Shows the power this open source Java reporting tool has and the ability to deliver rich content onto the screen, to the printer, or into PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV and XML files
• Demonstrates how JasperReports can be used in a variety of Java-enabled applications, including Java EE or web applications, to generate dynamic content
• Teaches you how to create page-oriented, ready-to-print documents in a simple and flexible manner

What you’ll learn

• Enable the embeddable Java reporting library, which you can embed in any host application to let you plug in Java and Groovy code.
• Handle complex reports, subreports with highly complex layouts, pixel-perfect page-oriented output for the Web or print, and crosstabbing, and output reports in PDF, XML, HTML, CSV, XLS, RTF, or TXT.
• Create integrated charting with comprehensive chat types.
• Use multilanguage Unicode and other native encodings, dynamic text localization, and localized date, number, and currency formatting.
• Scale with high-performance report generation with no limit to report size.
• Extend easily with built-in expressions and plug-ins for Java and Groovy code; integrate iReport visual report designer; and extend to other Eclipse or Swing-based designers.
• Access data flexibly with JasperReport’s built-in support for JDBC, EJB, POJO, Hibernate, XML, and more.

Who is this book for?

This book is for business intelligence reporting tool users and developers who have a background primarily in Java and Java EE.

JasperForge.org is the open source development portal for the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, the JasperSoft Business Intelligence solution that delivers comprehensive tools for data access, data integration, analysis, and reporting, including iReport. This definitive, authoritative book covers the following:

• Covers iReport as an intuitive and easy-to-use visual report builder/designer for JasperReports, written in 100% pure Java.
• Shows how users can visually edit complex reports with charts, images, and subreports, as iReport is integrated with leading open source chart libraries for Java
• Demonstrates how the data to print can be retrieved through several methods including multiple JDBC connections, TableModels, JavaBeans, XML, MDX, EJBQL, Hibernate, and so forth

What you’ll learn

• Understand the iReport and JasperReports installation process and fundamental concepts.
• Build your very first simple report.
• Set up and implement types of datasources including a JDBC connection, a custom datasource, and XML datasources.
• Explore iReport plug-ins.
• Create simple and complex charts.

Who is this book for?

This book is for business intelligence reporting tool users and developers who have a background primarily in Java and Java EE.

The definitive guide to state-of-the-art XML publishing with XSL-FO!

XSL-FO (XSL-Formatting Objects) enables enterprise applications to publish graphic-arts quality printed and electronic documents from any XML data store, no matter how large or complex. In Definitive XSL-FO, one of the world’s leading XML experts shows how XSL-FO is revolutionizing document publishing. The book offers concise, authoritative, example-rich guidance on using the entire XSL-FO specification, including:

XSL-FO’s objectives, semantics, and vocabulary
Key concepts, including layout-based versus content-based formatting, and formatting versus rendering
Area and page fundamentals: area models, block and inline basics, containers, page definition, and sequencing
Generic body constructs and tables
Static content and page geometry sequencing
Footnotes, floats, breaks, keeps, spacing, borders, and backgrounds
Interactive objects for dynamic displays
Supplemental publishing objects, including bidirectional Unicode scripts
Using XSLT with XSL-FO
Includes powerful quick reference tables for XSL-FO expressions, objects, and properties

Part of The Charles F. Goldfarb Definitive XML Series™

The definitive guide to state-of-the-art XML publishing with XSL-FO!

XSL-FO (XSL-Formatting Objects) enables enterprise applications to publish graphic-arts quality printed and electronic documents from any XML data store, no matter how large or complex. In Definitive XSL-FO, one of the world’s leading XML experts shows how XSL-FO is revolutionizing document publishing. The book offers concise, authoritative, example-rich guidance on using the entire XSL-FO specification, including:

XSL-FO’s objectives, semantics, and vocabulary
Key concepts, including layout-based versus content-based formatting, and formatting versus rendering
Area and page fundamentals: area models, block and inline basics, containers, page definition, and sequencing
Generic body constructs and tables
Static content and page geometry sequencing
Footnotes, floats, breaks, keeps, spacing, borders, and backgrounds
Interactive objects for dynamic displays
Supplemental publishing objects, including bidirectional Unicode scripts
Using XSLT with XSL-FO
Includes powerful quick reference tables for XSL-FO expressions, objects, and properties

Part of The Charles F. Goldfarb Definitive XML Series™

In NetBeans: The Definitive Guide, you'll find out how to use this IDE to its fullest, making your Java programming more efficient and productive than ever before. You'll understand the basics of the IDE, and quickly be utilizing the various editor and explorer windows. You'll also master many of NetBeans advanced features, and be working with XML documents, CVS repositories, Javadoc trees, and web applications, all within the NetBeans framework. In addition to teaching you how to use the existing features of NetBeans, this work goes on to cover developing additional modules for NetBeans. Through this instructional portion of the book, you will master the NetBeans APIs, and learn how to enhance NetBeans for your own specific needs. Whether you need to add customized behavior to handle your proprietary file formats, or want to redistribute NetBeans as a proprietary product, NetBeans: The Definitive Guide will allow you to master this open source IDE and all of its advanced features. Whether you are an enterprise developer looking for an IDE that can handle your complex program tasks, an open source developer looking to integrate NetBeans into your own visual projects, or a manager trying to maximize your team's development potential, NetBeans: The Definitive Guide is the book for you.

Scott Preston works as a technical architect for a large Columbus consulting firm where he resides with his lovely wife, Emily. Scott has over 15 years of software and electrical experience including positions with The U.S. Navy, Bank One, UUNET, and Covansys Inc., in addition to running his own robotics company, Preston Research LLC, where he gives robotic lectures in conjunction with COSI (Center of Science and Industry) and manufactures small Java-enabled robots called CubeBots®.

Ant is the premier build-management tool for Java environments. Ant enables developers to define builds of complex Java applications using industry standard XML. Ant handles dependencies between the different components involved in a build, can check out source code as needed from source code control systems, and can deliver components such as JAR files and WAR files to client, middle-tier, and server machines. Ant is an open source project, and is platform independent.

The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace is indeed definitive and proved to be a nearly perfect choice for starting my journey inside Eclipse's much hyped GUI toolkit(s).

— Lasse Koskela, JavaRanch Bartender

Need to build stand-alone Java applications? The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace will help you build them from the ground up. The book first runs down the Java GUI toolkit history. Then the book explains why SWT is superior and provides extensive examples of building applications with SWT.

You'll come to understand the entire class hierarchy of SWT, and you'll learn to use all components in the toolkit with Java code. Furthermore, the book describes JFace, an additional abstraction layer built on SWT. Demonstrations of building JFace applications are also included and reinforced with thorough explanations and example code. These applications can be used as GUI plug-ins for Eclipse, and they're compatible with the new Eclipse 3.0 application development framework.