Re: BIRT vs JasperReports

My experience with both is that they have very similar feature sets and capabilities. I have delivered a presentation on Open Source Report Writing Tools for IBM i at a Common conference (and will again this year) and for a Common webinar and I use both in the presentation. I have an RPG wrapper that also uses either under the covers so you can use RPG to create a fairly slick Jasper/Birt report.

Like most things at a very high level, there isn't much difference (e.g. MS Office and Open Office ) but it is what you get familiar with that eventually gets you to a level of detail that you might be able to be a pundit of one vs the other. In my case I am most familiar with Jasper but I added BIRT as an option when I created the RPG Report Generator so that people could have a choice.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.asaap.com
www.opensource4i.com


On 4/11/2011 10:21 AM, Joe Sam Shirah wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I'm giving a presentaation on JasperReports and iReport at our local JUG
( JaxJUG - Jacksonville, FL ) this Wednesday evening. It's a concepts and
how-to, but I'm sure some attendees will ask for comparisons. I'd
appreciate it if anyone who's used both, and doesn't have an axe to grind,
could send constructive pros and cons.

I think it would also be helpful to those on thi smailing list. I've
been happy with JasperReports, but always open to new horizons.

Thanks!


Joe Sam

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