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Java Forum / GUI / April 2005which report writer?
I'd appreciate the opinion of existing report generation software users. I need to create a .pdf with a table of row labels and data from SQL queries. I'd also like to put a few charts in from JChart. There's JasperReports, DataVision, JFreeReport. Has anyone had a particularly good or bad experience with any of these? Thanks  SignatureJeff > I'd appreciate the opinion of existing report generation software users. I > need to create a .pdf with a table of row labels and data from SQL queries. > I'd also like to put a few charts in from JChart. > > There's JasperReports, DataVision, JFreeReport. Has anyone had a > particularly good or bad experience with any of these? I haven't used any of the tools you listed but I'd like to add another candidate to the list: iText. I've used it successfully to create PDFs containing tables. I haven't tried to build any charts with it though; I'm not sure if it can do that. The main URL for iText is http://www.lowagie.com/iText/; you can also get the code at http://sourceforge.net/projects/itext/ iText is a free, open source API that is well documented with a detailed tutorial and a large, active mailing list. Rhino > > There's JasperReports, DataVision, JFreeReport. Has anyone had a > > particularly good or bad experience with any of these? > > > I haven't used any of the tools you listed but I'd like to add another > candidate to the list: iText. I've used it successfully to create PDFs > containing tables. FYI, JasperReports uses iText to generate PDF-formatted reports. SignatureRegards, John McGrath I personally like Forumla One e.Report Engine. See here : http://www.reportingengines.com/products/ereportengine/overview.jsp SignatureIf you have any additional questions or need source code email jason.herald@gmail.com. Thanks Jason Herald > I'd appreciate the opinion of existing report generation software users. > I need to create a .pdf with a table of row labels and data from SQL [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Thanks Jeff schrub am Montag, 4. April 2005 13:06 folgendes: > There's JasperReports, DataVision, JFreeReport. Has > anyone had a particularly good or bad experience with > any of these? I am using JFreeReport in my Software (Rezeptbuch Pro, free at the links below) and i can recommend it, because it is easy to use and powerful enough to do standard-like reports. Signaturegreetz Karlheinz Klingbeil (lunqual) http://www.lunqual.de oder http:www.lunqual.net You can try Scribe from www.reportgenerator.org. It will let you run SQL quieries, create charts from JFreeChart and output the results in various formats, including PDF. Alex Molochnikov Gestalt Corporation > I'd appreciate the opinion of existing report generation software users. I > need to create a .pdf with a table of row labels and data from SQL queries. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > -- > Jeff > There's JasperReports, DataVision, JFreeReport. Has anyone had a > particularly good or bad experience with any of these? I had good experiences with JasperReports on a project I worked on. I did not actually write the reports - another developer did that, but he had good things to say about Jasper and everything seemed to run very smoothly. SignatureRegards, John McGrath >I'd appreciate the opinion of existing report generation software users. I >need to create a .pdf with a table of row labels and data from SQL queries. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Thanks I don't know the others but I'm impressed with iReport <http://ireport.sourceforge.net/> which is a front end to JasperReports and allows you to visually design the reports. > I'd appreciate the opinion of existing report generation software users. I > need to create a .pdf with a table of row labels and data from SQL queries. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Thanks go with Ireports, it is a front end designer for jasperreports. the result is that you can output in virtually any format: pdf,XLS,HTml, tiff etc one "fly" in the ointment however, is that each time you upgrade the JasperReport library, you have to re-compile ALL the reports. which can be a pain for a distributed app. Steve I am in the process of rewriting a report generation tool I wrote in Java. I intend to add some base level features that invalidate my previous work. I would welcome some input as the types of features you desire in the report tool. Somewhere down the road I will post the application to the web. --Steve > I'd appreciate the opinion of existing report generation software users. > I need to create a .pdf with a table of row labels and data from SQL [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Thanks I have pretty basic requirements: 1. put some charts and tables in a .pdf. The charts and tables will be generated by methods that I write. 2. insert footers, headers, etc I look forward to hearing about your new application, Jeff >I am in the process of rewriting a report generation tool I wrote in Java. >I intend to add some base level features that invalidate my previous work. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> >> Thanks >I have pretty basic requirements: > 1. put some charts and tables in a .pdf. The charts and tables will be > generated by methods that I write. > 2. insert footers, headers, etc > > I look forward to hearing about your new application, The intent of my application is to generate reports from relational databases without the need to do coding or SQL. I had planned on charts, but I did not plan on a plugin setup. If I understand what your asking for I should write a plugin setup to allow for users to create custom parts. My first version had grid areas that had headers and footers and could be nested. I am not sure if that covers your need for tables or not. I don't have specific page headers and footers, the whole page is open realestate for placing fields. I will consider adding page headers and page footers if that is what you are asking for. In fact that gives me some additional ideas to consider. My first version also would generate PDF files using iText so I have that requirement covered. If you are curious about what I have in mind from a general perspective you can view the document I made for it at my website. If you are really brave you could even download version 0.2 from there as well. (version 1.0 will be a complete rewrite with more features and a better GUI.) If you or anyone visits my website I would appreciate any comments you should have. http://mysite.verizon.net/vze4kzxs/ --Steve > I am in the process of rewriting a report generation tool I wrote in Java. I > intend to add some base level features that invalidate my previous work. I [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> >> Thanks why re-invent the wheel? >> I am in the process of rewriting a report generation tool I wrote in >> Java. I [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > why re-invent the wheel? I really don't see myself as re-inventing the wheel rather making a different style of wheel. My original version was finished back in 2003 and I put it aside for a while. Now I am in the process of revisiting the subject in a more structured and pattern oriented way. This is an exersize for me to utilize Java JDK 1.5, UML, and OOP patterns. I looked into your pictures and the screenshots at iReports and they look ok, but I am trying to do something a little different. It may be that nobody will be interested in what I have in mind and that is ok with me. I find it fun to work on this program and a challege to add interesting features. I watched this thread for a while, and it appears to me that the feature set described in your posts (page headers/footers, page as a real estate for placing fields, PDF-formatted output, charts etc.) is very close (in fact, identical) to that of Scribe. I am curious to hear a feedback from you on my assumption. As for the "reinventing the wheel", you may indeed be doing just that - but if your objective is to learn something in the process, then it is worth it. Alex Molochnikov www.reportgenerator.org > This is an exersize for me to utilize Java JDK 1.5, UML, and OOP patterns. I > looked into your pictures and the screenshots at iReports and they look ok, > but I am trying to do something a little different. >I watched this thread for a while, and it appears to me that the feature >set [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Alex Molochnikov > www.reportgenerator.org I am in the process of downloading Scribe to see exactly what it does. Looking at the info. on the website it seems to me that it is along the lines of what I had in mind, although I didn't intend to do flowcharts. My intent was to make the interface in a different way. I will play with it a bit to see if it gives me any ideas. Hopefully I will not get to many and experience a bit of unwelcome scope creep. Thanks, Steve >I watched this thread for a while, and it appears to me that the feature >set [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > ok, >> but I am trying to do something a little different. Well, the install froze up on me so I will not be able to play with Scribe, but I spent a bit of time looking at the tutorials. I am impressed, they did a good job with there flowcharting tool. They also seemed to have a solution to some issues that I had not resolved, namely the updating of databases. I will try my best to keep my implementation different from thiers. Steve > Well, the install froze up on me so I will not be able to play with Scribe, I wonder why it froze up. What OS did you try to install it on? And at what point did it hung? > but I spent a bit of time looking at the tutorials. I am impressed, they did > a good job with there flowcharting tool. Thank you. "They" is actually us - Gestalt Corporation. > They also seemed to have a solution > to some issues that I had not resolved, namely the updating of databases. I > will try my best to keep my implementation different from thiers. There are probably more issues for a report generator to resolve, apart from updating the databases (which, strictly speaking, would be outside of the scope of the RG functionality). Things like e-mailing the reports, publishing them over the Web, cascading them in a drill-down sequence, running them in the background as a separate process, scheduling them for automatic execution - to name just a few. > ...I didn't intend to do flowcharts. My intent was to make the interface in a different way. The flowcharts are not part of the user interface (meaning the "end user" - the one who runs the report and benefits from its output). They are a programming tool for the developer of the report, letting him to create the report logic without actually coding it in a programming language, and without knowing much of SQL. Anyway, good luck with your exercise. AM >> Well, the install froze up on me so I will not be able to play with >Scribe, > >I wonder why it froze up. What OS did you try to install it on? And at what >point did it hung? Sorry for the late reply, I did not see this message until now ... I switched from Outlook Express to free agent and am trying to catch up to where I was and what do my wandering eyes see ... another post. I was attempting to install it on Windows XP Professional. Unfortunately I no longer know where exactly ... it has been too long. >> but I spent a bit of time looking at the tutorials. I am impressed, they >did >> a good job with there flowcharting tool. > >Thank you. "They" is actually us - Gestalt Corporation. You're welcome. >> They also seemed to have a solution >> to some issues that I had not resolved, namely the updating of databases. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >running them in the background as a separate process, scheduling them for >automatic execution - to name just a few. Most of these issues are not simple, but a more straight forward implementation from where my application was. I don't intend to cover email or web in my first version, although HTML would just be another output driver that I could support. >> ...I didn't intend to do flowcharts. My intent was to make the interface >in a different way. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >report logic without actually coding it in a programming language, and >without knowing much of SQL. I did the same thing in my application. I created a "database" definition for the developer to create. Once created by the developer the database definition can be saved and used to create the reports. Although I didn't use flowcharts in my initial version I did make a similar separation of logic. >Anyway, good luck with your exercise. > >AM Thanks again. Right now I am trying to internalize the MVC pattern. So I am going slow on my code. Still trying to figure out what I want to keep and what I need to rewrite. I don't expect to be any competition to you in the forseeable future, but hopefully someday I will have something interesting. --Steve Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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