Java Web Reporting Tool??

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#11

Author: vivek.pande
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 00:00

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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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Re: Java Web Reporting Tool??

#12

Author: Driss Zouak
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 00:00

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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
<71pca1$97o$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>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
>
>-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
>http://www.dejanews.com/       Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own

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