Open-source reporting solution?

Post #37,993 by tablizer 5/8/02 9:09:41 PM Reply	Open-source reporting solution? Are there any open-source solutions that compete with Crystal Reports? I am looking for a command-line driven report writer that can generate either PDF or RTF or MS-Word output (to a file) and have sub-total (grouping) capabilities and be "paper-aware" such that it has page numbers and the column headings and report title are repeated at the top of each page, etc. I found some that had PDF output, and others that had sub-summaries, but not both in one product.
Post #38,028 by altmann 5/9/02 2:59:16 AM Reply	I haven't found one, but ... I did run across [link\|http://www.lowagie.com/iText/\|iText], a LGPL Java library for PDF/RTF generation. It looks quite capable. At some point I may see if it can be useful for some simple tabular reporting and form letter generation. What have you found so far? -- Chris Altmann
Post #38,687 by altmann 5/14/02 5:45:35 PM Reply	JasperReports looks interesting (LGPL, Java) [link\|http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/\|JasperReports] looks interesting. It is Java based and LGPL. It looks like it takes and XML report definition and compiles the report into a Java class. When run, it gets the data via JDBC. It uses the previously mentioned iText library for PDF generation. -- Chris Altmann
Post #38,156 by orion 5/9/02 7:39:43 PM Reply	Not that I know of I tried one that was PDFWriter, but I think it went shareware when the developers found out they couldn't make any money off of it. I searched for one before, but came up empty. [link\|http://www.datadynamics.com/\|ActiveReports] competes with Cystral Reports, but it is not open sourced, but will create PDF files. *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #38,704 by altmann 5/14/02 7:22:38 PM Reply	Another (non-open source but cheap with source) Java based. [link\|http://www.java4less.com/print_java_e.htm\|RReport] is only $20 and includes source. No per server or per user license fees that I can see. It also uses iText to generate PDF's. -- Chris Altmann

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