Running SCRIBE programmatically

SCRIBE Report Generator comes with an API library that allows other applications to request the SCRIBE Server to run reports and receive the results in their own address space.

The requesting program must first establish a connection with the Server through the Connector object. Once the connection is accepted by the Server, the program must format the Vector of objects that encapsulate the report's run-time parameters and send the request to the Server. The generated report is returned to the program in one of the four ways:

• as an automatically created window with viewable and printable report (sample)
• as an object used by ReportPanel (subclass of JComponent provided by the API library), displayed by the program's own window (sample)
• as a byte array with the PDF-formatted content suitable for saving in a file or displaying through third-party applications, such as a Web browser (sample)
• as an object of HTMLData class that carries the HTML-formatted report and images (if any), encoded in JPEG format (sample).

The compile-ready Java code samples are available for download.