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Hi I have posted a similar mail sometime ago without much luck but thought I
would try again.

We are developing Java applications, applets with Jbuilder2, with a
Sybase backend in a two tier architecture. Very soon we will be moving
to a three tier architecture.
We also have existing intranet applications html front end, via CGI/servlets
to Sybase backend.

What we are looking and I am sure a lot of you out there would be in a
similar situation, is a Pure Java enterprise wide web based reporting tool.
The tool should cater to i) Report designers: Provide a WYSWYG screen, ala
windows style for designing the report and previewing it. ii) Java
application developers and hence provide a well published pure Java API so
that reports could be neatly integrated into the existing java/html based
applications. iii) End Users(without java/SQL/html knowledge) who would like
to perform Adhoc queries and print the output report WITHOUT the help of a
Java Application developer.

Additionally
a) it should also output reports in both Html and PDF.
b) no client side installation
c) preferrable the report generation from the Sybase DB be done on a
server running on a UNIX box.

We have seen a few products ERW, JReport, JDesignerPro, CrystalInfo, Infospace
recently but no single product seems to do it all. Well Crystal
Info seems to be the most comprehensive of the lot but doesnt offer a
pure Java API for it to be really Java compatible. Writing native code for
Java doesnt sound right.

There seems to be a dearth of Java reporting tools in the web environment
to match the features of tradional Crytal reports style reports in
the windows environment ??.

Anybody with any pointers or references of tool vendors who could do the
job. I would be interested to know how others are tackling the reporting
situation in the java world as well.

Thanks

Vivek Pande

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