RM 7 available here

Development
This is a link to the ReportMill design application. The design application is a Swing Java Web Start application. If you aren't familiar with Java Web Start or if you aren't sure if you have it installed, click here, otherwise:

Click Here to Launch RMStudio 8

Deployment
For deployment, download ReportMill8.jar (engine only).
Alternatively, download RMStudio8.jar (engine + RMStudio).

Running RMStudio from the command line
It's also easy to launch the ReportMill design application from the command line:
prompt> java -cp \Temp\RMStudio8.jar com.reportmill.App

WebObjects
For deployment with Apple WebObjects, you will also need RM8WebObjects.tgz.

Release Notes RM8

Overview

ReportMill 8 has been updated to Java 1.4 and has numerous enhancements which make it smaller, faster, easier to use and more feature rich. The ReportMill jar is now available in engine-only form, which is less than 900k, and the full version, complete with the design application, is only 1.6 MB. The new version also generates PDF up to 30% faster with up to 40% less memory.

ReportMill 8 also has a completely new 3D graphing engine, which supports graphing from any angle with interactive rotation, scaling and perspective. The table generation code has also been rewritten for this release and the new code is faster, more memory efficient and offers a new "Running Summary" feature which allows for "in-progress" summary rows and "Page summaries".

There are many other new features as well, including support of transparency in PDF generation and support for viewing multiple pages simultaneously in the same editor window.

Developer's Notes

API Changes

For various reasons, this is the first Java release of ReportMill that is not binary compatible. This means that you'll have to recompile your application against the new jar to use RM8. Developers will notice few changes to RM's simple API. The only change that most developers will notice is that ReportMill's most common classes have been restructured into a new package: com.reportmill.base. So anywhere your code references:

    #import com.reportmill.foundation.*;

Replace with:

    #import com.reportmill.base.*;

Other than that, a small percentage of ReportMill's low-level API has been changed to be more consistent with Java. Numerous accessors have been changed from xxx() to use the standard Java getXXX() convention.

Note also that ReportMill 8 requires Java 1.4 or beyond. If you need to deploy on a 1.3 system, please continue to use RM 7.

Java Advanced Imaging

ReportMill 5, 6 & 7 all included the Java Advanced Imaging image readers, which added significantly to ReportMill's jar size only to add support for less common image types, such as BMP and TIFF. ReportMill8 will use Java advanced imaging if it is installed on a machine, otherwise it will use the standard JRE image support (which handles GIF, JPG and PNG). Java Advanced Imaging can be downloaded from the following URL: Java Advanced Imaging main page.

Patch Feb 12:
    - RMDocument: Added getBytesPNG()
    - RMKeyChainFuncts: Changed total to treat null as zero (totalX now does short-ciruit thing)
    - RMViewer: Fixed Swing printing with Double page layouts
    - HTML: Moved hyperlink tag (<A>) inside DIV tag

Patch March 12:
    - RMTableRPG: Fixed bug with large Header rows, when only part of row fits on page
    - RMKey.valueForKey: Made fix for when specific app server (currently only WebObjects) coverts an object to null
    - RM "safe save": Rewrote to avoid Win problem where Win prefers overwrite to rename for templates open
            simultaneously by multiple apps
    - RMEditor: Fixed bug with opening multiple editor windows

Patch April 15:
    - RMTableRPG: Fixed bug with large summary rows, when only part of row fits on page
    - RMTableRPG: Fixed bug with missing details row, when immediately followed by summary on next page
    - RMEditor: New UI to give quicker access to inspector panel, color panel, font panel, Zooming and page selection
    - RMEditor: Fixed bug that errantly marked document dirty just from page selection
    - RMEditor: Fixed display bug that could cause unnecessary flashing when previewing or changing pages
    - RMTable: Added "Filter Expr" feature to table inspector that offers an expression used to limit table list objects

Patch May 27:
    - Added Spell Checking!
    - Added Hyphenation!
    - Open/Save panels: Implemented workaround for intermittent Sun JVM ImageIcon.<init> NPE.
    - RMExcelWriter: Fixed bug that rounded values to float instead of double
    - RMKeyChain: Added "countUnique" aggregate key
    - RMTextEditor: Added spell checking (panel and "check as you type")
    - RMTextEditor: Added hyphenation
    - RMXMLReader: Added code to load XMLReader directly instead of using/modifying system properties
    - PDFWriter: Fixed character rendering for non-built-in fonts (PDF quadratic bezier representation was flawed)
    - InspectorPanel: Fixed NPE on Linux (and sometimes others)

Patch July 8:
    - PDF: Added PDF 1.5 support for transparent images.
    - ShadowFill: Added PDF support for shadows.
    - New Paint/Fill inspector, exposing fills, stroke, gradients, texture and shadows.
    - New "Placement" inspector, to include location, size, rotation & scale in same inspector.
    - New "Shape General" inspector, to hold things like Name, URL, isLocked.
    - Text: Fixed bug where text was being resized 1 point too tall (relative to RM7)
    - Text: Fixed bug where last row of text was sometimes too tall
    - RMTableRow: Fixed bug where sometimes structured table row children unarchived with insufficient height
    - Preferences: Fixed bug that caused this panel to be empty

Patch Aug 29:
    - RMTableRPG: Fixed possible stack overflow bug for large reports, by changing a recursion to a loop.
    - TextTool: Made text inspector text editor use same background color as text in editor window (great for white text)
    - KeysPanel: Made keys panel require a double-click for inserting keys into text field instead of single-click
    - RMTextEditor: Fixed bug that suppressed setting font in empty text field
    - RMTextEditor: Fixed small delete key for Windows.
    - ReportMill: Fixed bug that caused RM to ignore license on some systems.

Patch Nov 28:
    - DataSourcePanel: Added panel to configure the datasource for a report
    - DataSourceJDBC: Added JDBC database connectivity to RM with configuration in DataSourcePanel
    - RMExcelWriter: Added support for date formatting
    - DataSourceGoogle: Added support for getting data from a Google search (really just a technology demo)
    - FontPanel: Fixed bug that excluded a number of fonts from showing up in font panel.
    - RMFont: Added code to do better job of guessing cross-platform font names.
    - RMImageFill: Added UI for rotating/scaling/skewing textures
    - RMTextLayout: Added support for right, center and decimal tabs.