[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Excel support in Seam: any interest?

[gavin.king@jboss.com]

anonymous wrote : I do love the idea of the PDF templating using facelets in Seam for doing up quick documents and e-mails -- but the idea of adding Excel support then leads to the plethora of other output formats that you can think of.. and does all that fluff (and re-inventing of the wheel) really belong in Seam? 

It's not like this stuff needs to be deeply integrated into the Seam core, its just an add-on jar, no big deal. That doesn't count as bloat, IMO.

anonymous wrote : I think most people who need a large variety of output formats will settle on a more full-featured reporting framework anyway.

The trouble is that reporting tools like these are kindof a world unto themselves, and its difficult to seamlessly integrate their capabilities into the flow and look and feel of your application.  Plus its a totally alien programming model to learn. (Usually, done by some "reporting guy" on the project.) I think its highly useful to have some limited set of reporting capabilities available in the web framework.

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