Java Based Web Reporting

Pete,

By chance have you (or anyone else) tried to interface either iReport
and/or Jasper with RPG?  I have a WebFaced application that is in dire need
of a good ad hoc reporting tool (I already have the front-end for field
selection, sort / selection criteria, etc.) and this looks like it would be
more than great.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dave Sager



Pete Helgren wrote:

Aaron,

We use Jasper reports which works very well and we use iReport as the
designer tool.  It is a great free, open source combination.  You'll
find iReport much easier to use than Query/400 and the formatting is
much superior to  Crystal Reports (IMHO).

iReports generates a compiled object that Jasper then uses to render the
report.

You'll find it here: http://ireport.sourceforge.net/

Also DataVision has some useful features and produces nicely formatted
reports.

All of these applications are Open Source.

Pete Helgren


albartell wrote:

>Does anybody know of some good and FREE (or near free) web reporting tools
>written in Java? The kind of reporting I am talking about is "on the fly"
>build your own queries type deal, similar to Query/400.
>
>So far I have found Bzbyte reports which has a lot of nice features and is
>open source. http://www.bzbyte.com/a/bzbyte/Products.jsp
>
>I also have demo'd PlanetJavaInc's WOW product and am going to get a quote
>for their Professional version (I need input capable fields for report
>search criteria). I also am not sure if this product supports MySQL or
not.
>
>
>Thanks for any info people can provide.
>
>Aaron Bartell
>