I have not used these tools personally.  I warn you that they can get
very expensive. Once the vendor has his proprietary hooks into you,
you are at his mercy.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/reportgenerator.html

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Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.

Many years ago my boss had a major problem with report generation.  We
were using a home brew database that required huge amounts of crud to
produce even a few lines of text.

I wrote a little preprocessor that would expand macros in C code.
This left flexibility for the strange cases, but made it possible to
crank out code for the routine ones.

The boss allowed me to write my code that way, but not to put the
unexpanded code into PVCS or anyone else to use the tool. They went
bankrupt a few years later.

There is a great advantage to having your own tool if it comes time to
port to some new platform.  You are in control.

The other approach is to use a skeleton into which you can insert
custom stubs.  The catch is, the stubs are never quite versatile
enough, and you spend so much time faking out the few complicated
cases, you outweigh the savings on the easy cases.

In Java, the way to go would be to use class libraries and handle your
strange cases by overriding bits of the standard classes. Now you have
something fully portable.

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Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.

Hi,

Try Espress Reports from QuadBase you can find it on:

www.quadbase.com

Regards,

Frank.