Design and Implementation of Report Generator based on XML Form : Moonlight

This paper presents details of the design and implementation of a report generator, Moonlight, which supports to design the report form from DB or data sources and print it to the printer. Also this paper defines the detailed model of the report system, the architecture and behavior of MoonLight, and the components of the report form, and also shows algorithms to make the report template and print the report bound to the data source. Moonlight takes advantage of XML language for the report template form. And also it is implemented by Jana language to take the advantage of platform independency. This paper also shows the results of run-time performance of Moonlight which is measured with the time to construct page objects of a report and the time to render the page objects to the print images, respectively.