On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:34:54PM -0700, Steve Bang wrote: > I haven't had a chance to try the following, but they look like interesting > options: > > For report generation: > > JasperReports > http://jasperreports.sf.net > > JFreeReport > http://www.object-refinery.com/jfreereport/index.html
Don't both of these rely on a *client* side java program to generate the report? I also believe that JasperReports generates a class that needs to be loaded for every report, which seems a little cumbersome in a JSP environment. > > For PDF generation: > > iText > http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ > > Big Faceless Report Generator > http://big.faceless.org/index.jsp > > > Any comments on experience with these products would be appreciated. > > Steve > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Haseltine, Celeste [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:14 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Report displaying and printing in JSP's > > > > > > I'm interested in knowing what options other people have used > > successfully, > > and not so successfully, to generate and display report > > information and > > format it for printer output in jsp/servlets. Our product is > > a jsp/servlet > > intranet application, and we would like to now add a report generation > > feature for the management team. There will be numerous > > types of reports, > > and all will utilize production data contained in the > > database. I've looked > > into Crystal Reports, but it does have port conflict issues with our > > application server JRUN 3.1. I know that XML format is great for > > displaying, but I understand that it has limitations when it comes to > > formatting the report for various types of printer output. Other than > > looking into PDF format, does anyone else have any > > suggestions/options that > > they would like to recommend? > > > > My thanks in advance for any recommendations/advice. > > > > Celeste Haseltine, PE > > MTL, Inc. > > > > ============================================================== > > ============= > > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: > > "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set > > JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > > http://www.jspinsider.com > > > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com -- Dror Matalon Zapatec Inc 1700 MLK Way Berkeley, CA 94709 http://www.zapatec.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
