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My book on EJB 3 is now on sale

July 7, 2010July 3, 2010 by Celinio

I received an email from the editor informing me that the book is now printed and will be available in bookstores next week (from July 5th, 2010). It is already available for sale on Amazon and ENI. An online version is also available. Here is the cover of the book :

Review of the book iReport 3.7

May 9, 2010 by Celinio

In this book made of 12 chapters, the author Shamsuddin Ahammad shows how to use iReport, the indispensable tool to conceive reports based on the JasperReports library, written with Java.
A MySQL database is created and its model is described in the appendix.

Quick chat with Teodor Danciu, the founder of JasperReports

March 21, 2010March 16, 2010 by Celinio

Today I went to the Solutions Linux Open source conference and met the founder of JasperReports: Teodor Danciu. He is Romanian and speaks a very good French. I had a quick chat with him. First, I thanked him for creating that great reporting library and then I asked him if the generated Excel files are … Read more

Generate a report from an SQL Server 2008 Anaysis Services OLAP cube with iReport and JasperReports

March 7, 2010February 19, 2010 by Celinio

Software versions that i used :

iReport 3.6.1
JasperReports 3.7.1
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
Tomcat Web Server 6.0

I was recently tasked to generate a report through JasperReports/iReport
with data coming from an OLAP cube stored in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services.

It was rather tricky because it seems there is no default Query Executer Factory that can handle MDX
through the XML/A protocol for SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services.

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