Description amehrega 2008-06-18 12:23:36 EDT

After a discussion with Sheldon, we both agreed to harden the report framework code before providing templates as examples.

A report service group can be associated with a data manager via Axis2.  The service group will provide a management and a generate service.  Assuming an agreeable exchange format, the client will be oblivious in terms of how the reports are managed and generated.  COSMOS default implementation will manage reports using file-based storage and BIRT report generation.  Adopters can provide service implementations to allow proprietary management and generation of reports.

The management report service will allow the client to determine available reports on a data manager.  Once a report is selected, the service will indicate if any user input is required for the generation of the report.  After prompting for user input, the client will invoke the report generation service with data available in the report management service (e.g. report template) and the user input collected.

The report generation service will return a format (e.g. HTML, PDF, XML+XSLT) that the client can display.