Monday, August 27, 2007

Step 2: The Presentation Layer

The second step in using the Framework of Reusable Components is to create charts, spreadsheets and report designs based on the field naming convention of the generic schema introduced in Step 1. The following is an example BIRT chart containing references to our generic schema database field names of Cat1, Date1 and Val1:



Once your report designs contain generic schema database field names, any data source created in Step 1 can be swapped into the report design. The presentation layer is now reused without having to make any modifications.

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