This is a port of the JPivot functionality that existed in Pentaho Platform 4.8 into a stand alone 5.0 plugin. Here are some additional details about the plugin:
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this plugin creates .xjpivot files in the 5.0 repository, although it also can execute .xaction based jpivot views as well
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In order to create the _jsp.java files, a 4.8 installation was used. These files are generated by tomcat from JSPs and then have been heavily modified as servlets to work within the context of a Pentaho Platform plugin.
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Modifications were necessary to JPivot and WCF in order to get the system to behave correctly within a plugin classloader. These changes are in jpivot-src-mods, and are based off of source code grabbed from the JPivot Sourceforge repository on 6-20-2013: http://jpivot.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/jpivot/
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Due to a platform upgrade to a more recent version of fop (BISERVER-7286), PDF and Excel output don't work unless you downgrade to version 0.20.5, which can be found in JPivot's repository project on sourceforge. This may have negative impacts on other system components, so downgrade sparingly and test the rest of the system when doing so.
Remaining Items:
- Test in JBoss, may require jasper.jar, etc, not sure. These are bundled in the lib/ folder
- Determine why filename appears with extension in folder browser