Julian Hyde and his cohorts on the Mondrian project have been busy at work for nearly 5 years (spec 0.5 done in 2006!) working on the difficult, but worthwhile effort of standardizing client side access to OLAP in Java.
They just released version 1.0! This is a big deal; bigger players have attempted and failed at this before (ahem JOLAP). Kudos to Julian, Luc and the others involved to get such a *real* standard in place!
There’s a few reasons why this matters to everyone in…
