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I have heard of a product by a company called Actuate, check them out
www.actuate.com

Crystal Reports 6 is supposedly also available.

Driss.

vivek.pande@showads.com.au wrote in message
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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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