DataVision 1.0.0 is now available from SourceForge at
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=33343>.

DataVision (http://datavision.sf.net) is an Open Source reporting tool similar
to Crystal Reports. Reports can be designed using a drag-and-drop GUI. They
may be run, viewed, and printed from the application or exported as HTML, XML,
PDF, LaTeX2e, DocBook, or tab- or comma-delimited text files. The output files
produced by LaTeX2e and DocBook can in turn be used to produce PDF, text,
HTML, PostScript, and more.

DataVision is written in Java and uses the Bean Scripting Framework for
scripting.

Changes
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* DataVision now requires Java 1.4.X. (I don't know if it will work with
 Java 1.5.)

* New aggregate fields, replacing the single ``subtotal'' aggregate field.
 Field type values may be ``sum'', ``min'', ``max'', ``count'', ``average'',
 and ``stddev''. The old ``subtotal'' type will still be accepted and will be
 turned into ``sum''. The old ``Running Total'' dialog now lets you select
 the aggregate type at each level (group or report footer).

* The file parsing API has been simplified. Almost everywhere in the public
 interface, such as the report reading methods, that used to take a String
 file path, a Reader, an InputStreamReader, an InputSource, or anything else
 now just takes one of two types: a File or a InputSource.

* The old readFile() methods, that were deprecated, have been removed. Use the
 read() equivalents. See the previous item, though: read() only takes a File
 or an InputSource.

* The old Report.setParameterXMLFile method, that was deprecated, has been
 removed. Use setParameterXMLInput, which now only takes a File or an
 InputSource.

* Stopped using the MinML2 SAX parser, in favor of the built-in Java SAX
 parser.

* Removed the GNU regex library, since Java 1.4 includes regex support.

* Upgraded to iText PDF generation library version 1.3.

* Upgraded to JRuby 0.8.2.

* Added Rick Kramer's patch which adds a delete menu item to the field picker
 window's edit menu.

* Stop using ``enum'' as a variable name. It's a reserved word as of Java 1.5.

* The class ConnectionTest in examples/ConnectionTest.java is now in the
 package named ``examples''. The class TranslateOMatic in
 jimm/properties/TranslateOMatic.java is now in the package
 ``jimm.properties''.

* I've switched to using Subversion (SVN) instead of CVS for source code
 control. SourceForge will be offering SVN in the future. For now, I'm
 hosting the repository at http://jimm.textdriven.com/svn/datavision/trunk. I
 haven't bothered to try to import the existing CVS repository, since I don't
 think anybody really cares about the complete revision history of all the
 code since I've checked it in to CVS. To check out the source anonymously,
 assuming you have a SVN client, type

   svn co http://jimm.textdriven.com/svn/datavision/trunk datavision

 which will create a new directory called datavision. You can also point your
 browser at that URL and browse the latest revision online.

* Remember the last-used layout engine in the export window. This is the first
 of a hopefully long line of things that DataVision will remember for you. I
 plan to add more, like the windows positions, last-opened report, default
 formats, paper sizes, database connections, and more.

Bug Fixes
=========

* Fixed creation of datavision-versiontar.gz. When unarchived, the files
 appear in a subdirectory named datavision-version instead of being unpacked
 in the current directory.

* Fixed a bug in the GUI: when a field format was changed, then the report was
 run, then another field's format was changed, the changed format was not
 used when you ran the report again. (The format was saved correctly when you
 saved the report.)

* Fixed bug where saving a report didn't save it to the right directory; it
 was saved in the datavision dir.

* Improved the PDF layout engine's font selection. It wasn't using the correct
 font name when it looked for the PDF equivalent standard font. The Java font
 family name is used to pick the PDF font. The family can be the font name
 ("Helvetica", "Arial") or a logical name ("sansserif", "serif",
 "monospace"). "Helvetica" or "sansserif" map to Helvetica, "Courier" or
 "monspace" map to Courier, "Symbol" and "ZapfDingbats" map to themselves,
 and everything else (including "serif", for example) maps to Times.

Jim