John,
all he said is that jasper is using a jdbc compliant driver interface to fill
the report. So if you want to use LDAP as a source, you have to find a way to
wrap this LDAP source into a JDBC compatible Driver interface.
He pointed you to the right Driverlocation too. So I do not understand why you
answer that harsh.
By the way, there is no such thing as a "perfect world" or an out-of-the-box
solution for every problem. Jasperreports gives you the freedom to adjust it
to your needs, whereas a sole LDAP Reporting solution does not let you.
BIRT is quite restricted on the output modules. So if you only want PDF and
HTML this is your choice. If you need M$ Excel too, than jasperreports gives
you that freedom.
HTH
Juergen Hoffmann
Am Montag, 20. März 2006 19:53 schrieb John Smith:
> Jack,
>
>
> Thanks for making the suggestion. But I am not really interested in
> rolling my own custom code here. You see im not a developer, just an
> end user. So if JasperReports does not provide this functionality
> 'out-of-the-box', then I guess that Im just going to have to look at
> some other solution here. Perhaps I should take a look at BIRT or
> Pentaho ?
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> John Smith.
>
> On 3/20/06, Jack Bakker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > John,
> >
> > In your own code you could select from the LDAP source and return a
> > custom datasource to JasperReports. I've used this mechanism for bringing
> > together data from multiple sources (relational dbs, ldap, etc.).
> >
> > For OpenLDAP, there is a JDBC-LDAP tool that might work (haven't tried
> > it). I suggest the custom datasource approach above.
> >
> > ..
> > Jack
> > -< www.iable.ca >-
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> > > Of John Smith
> > > Sent: March 20, 2006 10:54 AM
> > > To: jasperreports-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: [jasperreports-questions] Using LDAP as a datasource ?
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > >
> > > I was wondering if JasperReports provides the capability to produce
> > > query's and design reports based on the contents of an LDAP server, by
> > > using LDAP as the datasource ? Please note that I am not talking about
> > > authenticating the users of JasperReports to/in LDAP, but really about
> > > reporting on the ldap content itself.
> > >
> > > For example, would it be possible to use JasperReports to report on :
> > >
> > > - The amount of new entries created/modified/deleted in LDAP
> > >
> > > - Wheter certain entries or object types in LDAP (like usernames or
> > > the dn/cn of inetOrgPerson objects) meet/don't meet certain criteria
> > > (like naming conventions)
> > >
> > > - Whether any 'groupOfNames' entries have any 'member' entries that
> > > dont't exist anywhere else in the LDAP tree anymore (groups that have
> > > non-existing users as a member)
> > >
> > > - etc. etc. ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for the feedback,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > >
> > >
> > > John Smith.
> > >
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