Contact: Joseph W. Yoder {yoder@cs.uiuc.edu}

Title: REPORTS
Authors: John Brant & Joseph Yoder
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ABSTRACT

This paper is the beginning of a pattern language for reporting applications. 
While there are many different aspects of reporting, this paper focuses on the 
ability to create new reports at runtime. This pattern language consists of 
patterns that pull data from the database and those that manipulate the data 
after it has been extracted from the database. This is accomplished by 
converting both queries and formulas into objects. These object are then 
assembled into reports through the high-level Report Objects pattern.