Hi folks, I'm in need of a visual report builder. Can anyone tell me if they have experience with either Adobe's Report Builder (which I've downloaded and played with a little bit) or Jasper Reports/iReport? We're up in the air over using PHP or CF. I'm pushing CF and my boss is pushing PHP (*sigh*). He's also insistent on being able to build the report visually, like he does in Fox Pro, or like using Crystal (except that's too expensive). I almost think I've got him convinced that we need to use CF, but he's pushing back hard on me to come up with reasons why we can't use PHP (not really why CF would be better, but why PHP would be worse/slower). I've already mentioned to him that Jasper is written in Java and that CF can talk natively to all the objects, and that to do the same in PHP requires a third party (all be it open source) PHP/Java bridge, and then jumping through several hoops. This only turned him off to the idea of JasperReports, not to the idea of using PHP.
Any information on how folks are typically generating complex reports (visually) would be great. Heck any help in general would be fantastic. Thanks, Chris -- http://cjordan.us ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:286992 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
