Re: Java Reporting Program

["David Morris" <David.Morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

tim,

It sounds like you are interested in a report generation tool more than a 
report delivery tool. One I have heard of is Jasper Reports. You can find out 
more at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports/

I have no experience with this package so I can't vouch for its quality. As 
someone else mentioned, Cocoon is a very good report delivery tool. You still 
have to build and structure your data, but once you do Cocoon offers quite a 
few delivery options. You would probably be most interested in PDF delivery, 
which Cocoon does quite well. Some limitations of the technology are the memory 
usage and you have to be pretty fluent in XML and XSLT. The memory challenge 
can be minimized by returning short reports. Also, you can minimize memory 
usage by building reports as they are processed. There are some bugs in the 
latest version of FOP (I think it is 20.2) that make this more of a challenge.

David Morris

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I was wondering if anyone has seen, an open source java based reporting
program out there on the net?  Something like crystal reports....

thanks, tim