Inforama is a Java based Document Automation system which allows document templates to be created quickly and easily using OpenOffice. Templates are populated with data from parameters, databases and other datasources before being generated into PDFs for printing and emailing.

They have recently releaseVersion 1.4 that includes some significant enhancements and bug fixes including the following…

- Merge OpenOffice documents on the server and export to multiple formats including .pdf and .doc
- New CSV datasource similar to the spreadsheet datasource
- More advanced user rights management using Spring
- Improved Ajax browser interface using the Spring DWR library

Inforama Community Edition is the studio for creating Inforama projects and carrying out document automation on a single machine. Projects created in Inforama Studio can be deployed to any J2EE server running Inforama Enterprise Edition in order to provide enterprise wide document automation. While Inforama Enterprise Edition allows document automation to be carried out within an enterprise and runs on any J2EE server. Integrate Inforama easily with your existing back-end systems whether they are written in Java or .NET using Inforama’s powerful web service interfaces.