TextReportEngine Examples

There are two examples of TextReportEngine usage.

BeverageReport uses a single Beverage object to generate a plain text report. It uses fixed-length fields, specified using hash symbols (#).

BeverageHTMLReport shows a report with a header, a footer, and a repeating subsection, which is generated for each object in a Vector of Beverages. It uses variable-length fields, specified using backticks (`) around the name of the field. To liven it up even more, the format for the report is stored in a configuration file in TOF format (this may look funny in your web browser, since it contains embedded HTML codes - be sure to check it out with a text editor).

To try them out, just:

1. compile them with javac
2. make sure the class files are in your classpath somewhere
3. open a command shell and set your current directory to the directory that BeverageReportFormat.tof is in
4. run

   java BeverageReport
   	  

   and

   java BeverageHTMLReport
   	  

The programs will create the files BeverageReport.txt and BeverageReport.html.