Just a note regarding Crystal as a JSP reporting tools.

I've attempted to use Crystal Reports with our JRUN Server, and I stumbled
upon the issue of port conflicts.  I didn't spend a lot of time
investigating the problem, but I noted that Crystal Reports by default tried
to assign itself to the same port that we had assigned to our JRUN
server/IIS 5.0 configuration.  Although we could have manually changed the
JRUN server/IIS port to another number, that presented additional problems
for us.  Forcing Crystal to use another port besides it's own assigned
default value did introduce some instability issues.  I gather this was due
to the fact that the Crystal Server also needed to communicate with IIS 5.0
in order to run.  I did correspond with another user on the JRUN listserver
who had successfully integrated Cyrstal with a JRUN server/IIS 4.0
configuration, but he also confirmed for me that they occasionally had some
problems with Crystal.  Because their site was not a high usage site, their
approach was to "reboot the server" and wait for it to happen again.

Again, I did not investigate or play with Crystal for more than a week
before discarding it as a viable option.  Since our reporting needs were
simple, and the printing of reports were for employee internal use only, I
opted to use XML/XSLT for creating reports.  But the reports do not have any
"options" for the user to change page margins, page breaks, or other
formatting issues that you expect from a reporting tool, prior to printing.
What you see is what you get when you print, and sometimes the reports are
not that pretty.

Celeste  
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3 major competitors in the Enterprise Java Reporting space:
www.actuate.com
www.ibi.com
www.crystaldecisions.com


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> Hi everybody,
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> Does someone know a powerful tool of web reporting using JSP?
> I'm looking for it since more than a week.
>
> Please help me..
> Thanks,
> Regards,
>
> Gaetan
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