So this is my first time posting a question here. If I do it wrong, please, be gentle. :)
I'm trying to find a decent reporting solution at my company and it seems like JasperReports is one of the better (read: inexpensive) ways to go. They've got a newly revamped Eclipse-based banded report editor called JasperSoft Studio, and it looks really slick.
The problem I'm having is figuring out exactly what pieces I need in order to use this tool (or the files it creates) in my CF apps. After much Googling, I'm not really finding the answers I'm looking for... and what little information I do find is really pretty old.
Is anyone using JasperSoft Studio in combination with the JasperReports Library to do any on-the-fly PDF creation? We've come to a point on this particular application where cfdocument just isn't cutting it.
The things I know are:
CF is using a really (really, really) old version of JasperReports
under the hood to drive cfreport.
There is a way for me to override the really old version of
JasperReports so that CF will load the newest one.
Beyond that though, I'm not sure if it's just a matter of using JasperSoft Studio to create compiled JRXML files or (.jasper files, I'm not sure which) and then maybe just rename those to '.cfr' which cfreport knows how to deal with... or what?
If I look at the documentation for JasperReports Library it would seem that I need a lot more than just the JR Library and the JasperSoft Studio to make all of this work... but it's just kind of unclear to me. Because the library is so flexible and can be used from lots of different types of systems I'm having trouble figuring out what I need for my certain set of circumstances.
Is anyone out there using JasperReports in their CF applications or does anyone have any experience setting up to use JasperReports with CF?
There seems to be precious little information on this topic. :(
Also, in case it comes up (as it did in a few of the much older posts I found on the internet) ColdFusion is written in Java so I DO have access to any underlying Java Classes that I might need.
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I have a large preexisting code base depending on many external libraries which all uses \MTd as the runtime setting. This code base is stable and well tested in this configuration.I would prefer to keep it as is.
I am attempting to integrate a new external library into the code base (incase it matters it is the Casablanca REST SDK) however I have just discovered it appears to need to be used with the \MDd setting. I was getting some strange untrackable bug deep in std:shared_ptr when I discovered this problem. When I changed my isolated project to use \MDd casablanca worked much better.
Visual studio does not appear to allow me to have different settings it appears to be either all or nothing in one solution?
Does anyone know of a good work around for this situation? Any suggestions? I'm not even sure where to focus my attention?
1) Can I fake Visual studio out and use both? and if so should I actually do that?
2) Or should I attempt to get a working static library of casablanca? It does not appear possible on the disscussion forum?
3) Or should I just bite the bullet and move the entire solution to \MDd?
4) Lastly, should I just cut my loses and try a different client server framework? A quick search showed for a windows c++ client server solution I could use Boost Asio, Google Client API, WinSock?
This is my first client server implementation and opinions are very welcome.
We actually moved the entire code base to link dynamically. There were other libraries causing some concerns and this seemed like a good time to migrate the code base. Problem solved, at least for now. Thanks for the feedback.
From last few day , I was searching for static code analysis tool for ColdFusion. I have not got a good one till now. I found two.
YASCA
https://code.google.com/p/cf-metrics/
From YASCA I was getting only XSS alerts and some alerts for session mgmt, nothing more than that. I have tried with my entire project.
I am not even able to properly install cf-metrics using ColdFusion10 , After putting the required jar file in the lib folder I was not able to access any one my IIS site
because of some isapi redirect isse.
Any other tools available?
If you're still looking for a ColdFusion Linter, I would recommend CFLint. It's hosted on GitHub and Maven. The parser was updated to use ANTLR4, so it's much faster than previous editions. We're also making it easier to customize than JSLint.
I've looked at this a couple of times in the past, as I maintain a large CF application.
Each time I looked I was unable to find anything suitable. I spent a while looking into using the Railo CFML parser (because it's open source) to build something ourselves and concluded at the time that it was possible, but was no small task.
You may be able to re-examine the Railo approach, but feed the AST from Railo into an existing code analysis tool. I never got that far, but it may be possible to an extent.
I'd love to hear different, but the short answer is that there's not much out there.
We recently had a hacker gain access to our system. They dumped some Coldfusion templates and included them in random pages on our sites.
The files they dump start with Allaire Cold Fusion Template and then contain what appears to be "garbage", but I believe that this is some kind of pre-compiled Coldfusion code.
We've cleared out the hacks, but I saved off the files because I was hoping that there would be some way to de-compile them and maybe make some sense of them. Although I think the hack is dealt with, I am a little worried about what this code was doing. (When I looked at the source of a page that included this code, it created no output, so something had to be going on in the background.)
If there isn't a way, that's cool, I just thought I would at least investigate the possibility of seeing what these files were doing. Thanks in advance for any help.
Wow, you have awakened some of my "old" brain cells... Way back when you could encrypt your ColdFusion templates and they could still be run on a ColdFusion server. This encryption was not very secure as the decrypting algorithm was readily available. It was/is an easy way to "hide" your code from the unknowing (I guess).
I did a quick Google search and found an old reference to a decrypt function on Adobe's site that may help "crack" that code. AB Positive Encrypt and Decrypt I believe their code would have to be encrypted this way otherwise the ColdFusion server would not be able to read the files either. This download includes the cfdecrypt.exe and cfencode.exe programs.
If that tool does not work and if I remember correctly, the ColdFusion encryption before CFMX was done using something called CFCrypt.exe. That was an older versions of ColdFusion I think but you can try using that too. I couldn't find it but I'm sure if you Google for it can be found.
Please post back with your results. I'm interested to see what they were doing.
There is a program out there cfdecrypt that will help you decompile them. I haven't used it in years, but here is a link I found to a github project:
https://github.com/disccomp/cfdecrypt
I already did some searching on stackoverflow and as far as I can see there are many ways to use databases in C++. Unfortunately at work my tools are pretty limited. I only get to use visual studio C++ 6 and don't even have boost (although I have learned to cope with that) - I assume that I can only use what is the standard distribution being delivered togather with VS C++ 6.
Now my code generates a lot of data and I would like to store some of it in a simple databse (like an MS Access db). What tools might I be able to use?
My alternative approauch would be to create a database-like object via a struct and vectors/arrays.
I also have office 2010 installed - perhaps I could somehow use Access?
Computation-speed also plays a role - the faster the better.
Another important thing: my PC at work isn't an open client. Thus I can not install any new software. Downloading and moving files works. Basically I must be able to install the tool by just moving the files into a desired folder.
Please let me know if the question is confusing or insufficiently detailed I will do what i can to remedy the situation then.
Thnaks in advance for your help :)
Even though you said 'only standard tools', I'd still say, get SQLite. It ss a public domain software, i.e. no license whatsoever . You can download an 'amalgamation' - one .h file and one .c file and include it into your project. It should compile in VC6 no problem. Very easy to use, you will be up and running in 10 minutes.
It does exactly what you need - a DB in a single file, no servers, zero-setup, etc.
Well, Visual C++ 6 did include MFC which had a suite of classes for the creation and manipulation of databases, I'm fairly certain it would be possible to use these to create a database that is accessible from Access. Unfortunately Microsoft's online help doesn't seem to go back that far, but all the reference material you need should come with the VS 6. (In my opinion VS Help system was better back then anyways.)
On a side note, you could download an old version of boost that would work with VS6. I'm not sure what the last version of boost that supports VS6 is, my guess it's somewhere around 1.3x.
VC6 should work.
Can you use MFC's db objects? (DAO I think back then?).
If your app really generates a lot of data, you might want to look at MySql. I've run into size limitations in older Access tables. Unless it's an extraordinarily simple db, you probably don't want to brew your own (though it might be fun if you have a lot of time).
The key will be finding a driver/db combo that will work. I would install the GA (free) MySql, create a tiny db with 1 table and find the driver ("connector" in MySql terms) that will work. Maybe older ODBC driver?
Also, check out ConnectionStrings.com for info on getting connected to a particular database / driver.
Has anyone have good experience using SQLAPI++ Library? (connecting C++ and SQL)
What do you recommend, I have a local server, SQL server 2008 and Windows XP.
Do you have a funcional example to connect c++ and sql server?, just to do a simple
SELECt * FROM mytable;
in C++?
My first impression is that SQLApi++ is great. Here is a bit of background.
I have been using ADO for a long time, but it's starting to give some COM errors for some users, without any helpful information. Also, msado??.tlb is not backwards-compatible so you have to be careful about all your users being on the same version. I understand this might not apply to you, but I figured I would share this anyway.
I started looking into SQLApi++ a few days ago and have almost only good things to say. The only draw-back I have found so far is that there is no way to know how many rows you get back without going to the result set. Also, it isn't free. On the positive side, the API is intuitive, the documentation is good, and the examples are useful. It is blazingly fast by comparison to ADO. Instead of copy/pasting, take a look at http://www.sqlapi.com/Examples/step4.cpp.
The SQLApi++ is supported since 2000. The last update was few months ago. The site is not updated most probably because it is good enough as it is - couple of useful examples, documentation, history and support. That it is just a plus if they don't update site very often that means their examples and etc. are not changed, which means the api is stable and you don't have to change your code in order to use the latest technologies.
Sounds good, indeed, but the site hasn't been updated for a long time now :(