One of the departments here at HQ which is responsible for maintenance
(vehicular fleet, all appliances in all buildings, electrical, plumbing,
grounds, a dozen farm vehicles, full welding and machine shop etc...it
not the white house but it's still huge...) is using MA CMMS, a
professional JAVA script Maintenance program on his Mac. which is acting
as a server also to everyone else on the LAN
(http://www.maintenanceassistant.com/)
This is a very well designed program... well, almost-- the silly thing
has no way to get out custom reports. It's using Apache Derby and the
GUI layer talks to the dBase using JDBC. The manager of that department
asked if I could help him. MA CMMS recommends JASPER for getting reports
from Derby, he successfully installed it and we have access to the
schema, tables, fields... but it is so much over head just to get a
simple list from a simple SQL query. And the query builder tools are
complicated and buggy, and reports require you to build export
templates... he's going to waste a huge amount of time just to get
simple "raw" tab delimited lists of e.g. (use case he told me about
today) itemized list of all repairs and the cost for the repair on all
the vehicles and mobile equipment (our town car, pickup truck, van,
riding mowers, John Deere tractor, Caterpiller skid steer etc) in the
fleet for the year. It's mostly for financial analysis and reporting and
doesn't need any eye candy.
I'm spoiled by LiveCode's ease of talk to dBases and PHPMySQL admin..
but we can't find anything like this for Apache Derby Dbase.
I don't think that LiveCode can do JDBC...
We looked on line for tools that can "talk Derby dBase on OS X" but
did not find anything suitable, free and simple.
Any ideas?
Sivakatirswami
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