Re: Finding a Java report writer


"Trimtrom" <trimtrom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello

I am a VB programmer moving to Java.

With VB I always used Crystal Reports as a report writer. I am
planning to do some private database Java work, and I was wondering
what Java programmers do when they want to produce database reports. I
presume that none of the free IDEs such as JBuilder come with a report
writer built in.

I am especially interested in free opensource software, as I am a
rather penniless programmer. The report software would need to
integrate seamlessly with a Java database application, but I haven't
decided what database I am going to use yet.

I would be grateful for recommendations for free or very cheap
software.

I've never used Crystal Reports; in fact, I have never knowingly looked at
any output from Crystal Reports.

However, I have found some free ways to generate reports from Java. Perhaps
this will supplement the information that others have given in their replies
to your questions.

One of the techniques I use is to write HTML pages from Java programs. I've
got some examples if you need them but they're a bit more involved than you
probably want. There's nothing very automated about this technique but it
lets you write pretty much anything you'd ever want; you just have to keep
writing println statements until everything you want it written to the
report. This doesn't use anything but native Java facilities so it doesn't
cost anything but time.

The other technique I've started using lately is the iText classes, which
can be found for free at http://www.lowagie.com/iText/. You can use these
classes in Java programs to write files in any of these formats: PDF, RTF,
HTML and XML. Again, you need to compose the content of these reports but
it's not terribly difficult coding for the most part; you just have to take
some time to write the statements.

With both techniques I've mentioned, you can access JDBC to get database
data and use that data in your reports.

---
Rhino


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