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Doctoral Symposium on Informatics Engineering
« Developing Dynamic Reports using Rich Internet Applications »
Luis.Matias[at]Fe.Up.Pt 29/01/20109
Summary
• Introduction
• Hypothesis
• Related Work
• Methodologies
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion and Future Work
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Introduction
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The Problem
• The Chairs and the DSS need structuredinformation from their data!
• The traditional BI applications gives us goodReports and Charts, but…
ARE THEY ENOUGH?
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Crystal Reports
• Crystal Reports is one of the most used BIapplications in the world;
• It allows you to create templates toautomatically generate Reports BUT…
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• The templates are not flexible enough!
• The reports are entirely static after it’sgeneration!
INTERACTIVE
RIA can be a solution!
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• The reports should be:
FLEXIBLE
USER-FRIENDLY
ACESSIBLE
MEANINGFUL
PORTABLE
DYNAMIC!
YOU CAN’T TALK TO A PIECE OF PAPER!
Hypothesis
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Hypothesis
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I. Is it possible to develop an application toautomatically generate dynamic reports usingRIAs?
II. Is The Microsoft Silverlight better than theAdobe Flash to develop it?
Related Work
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Related Work
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Methodologies
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RIAs Characteristics
• Support graphical render and the inclusion ofmedia clips (like the Desktop apps);
• Easy installable and accessible (browser plug-in);
• Safest because they are, usually, pre-compiledand executed over a Sandbox;
• Better performance ‘cause they are client-sidedapplications – the server does the processing!
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Prototype Requirements
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• Develop one Management Control automatedgenerated maps in a application using a RIA;
• Dynamic contents and configurations changingin runtime environment;
• Edit the values in the reports to use them later;
• Strong visual components and highly intuitiveinterface;
• Automatically generate charts with the data;
Results
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Flash Developing Results
• The prototype was developed with onemap;
• Web service used to query the database;
• User friendly interface and accessible by abrowser;
• Really difficult to create your owncontrols;
• The automatic bar’s chart was notimplemented due to the lack of time; 29-01-2010
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Silverlight Developing Results
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• The prototype was easily developed;
• Web Service WCF and LINQ used toconnect to the database;
• Silverlight Toolkit used to build newcontrols to generate charts;
• Animations time-based automaticallygenerated;
Silverlight Developing Results
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Flash vs. Silverlight – The Metrics
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• User Experience;
• Security, Communication and Client’s Access;
• Installation and Execution;
• Maintenance and Reliability;
• Developing Easiness;
Flash vs. Silverlight – The Results
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Adobe Flash MS Silverlight
User Experience
Security, Communication and Client’s Access
Installation and Execution
Maintenance and Reliability
Developing Easiness
Discussion
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Discussion
• The one point win of Silverlight to Flash is notrelevant for itself;
• The Flash market share is really high andbecause of that, it is a trustful and safe solution;
• Key characteristics of Silverlight make it thebetter option in this context;
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Conclusions and Future Work
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Conclusions and Future Work
• Both hypothesis are realizable;
• The developing of this tool using RIA is possible;
• The Silverlight seemed better than Flash in thiscontext because of it’s user experience anddeveloping easiness;
• Develop a multi-database architecture to acommercial product to automatically generatethe dynamic reports;
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Thank You!
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• Moritz, F. (January of 2009). Rich InternetApplications (RIA). Obtained in 5th January of 2009, in Rich Internet
Applications (RIA):http://www.flomedia.de/diploma/documents/DiplomaThesisFlorianMoritz.pdf
• Christodoulou S. P., “Evaluation ofHypermedia Application Development andManagement Systems”. 9th ACM conferenceon Hypertext and Hypermedia, ACM Press, Pittsburgh, 1998,
pp. 1 - 10, ISBN:0-89791-972-6.
• S.Comai, “Necessity of methodologies tomodel Rich Internet Applications”. WSE - Proceedings of
the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Web Site Evolution, IEEE Computer Society,Washington DC, 2005, pp. 7 - 13, ISBN ~ ISSN:1550-4441 , 0-7695-2470-2
