Hi Sherod, Thank you for your input and recommendations. I will definitely take a look at the 2 books you mentioned.
Quick question: have you used BIRT with exporting to excel? I know that there's a POI excel emitter and I was wondering if you had any experience that you can share with me. I have 16 reports that need to be viewable via HTML and export to excel. The export needs to have the same format as what's seen on the web. Also, the reports would be generated on the fly since there will be certain parameters sent into the query in order to get the correct dataset. Any input you have on POI or any other excel emitter would be greatly appreciated. -Kym On Sep 29, 2:37 pm, sherod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its been around a little while, we're using it on our project for PDF > generation for a desktop application and a web application (Shared > engine). > > It's pretty powerful (For something thats free), there is a pretty > good report designer and it has lots of functionality for working with > SQL data sources and crunching data/graphing etc. > > Beware of the XML datasource stuff though, most all of the examples on > using BIRT use SQL as a datasource and the features available for SQL > don't match those for XML (you can't pass parameters into a XML > datasource). > > It also has some large runtime requirements of between 10 to 30MB or > so, (its not entirely clear what you need to use). And you can embed > either its report viewer as a web app with additional features > available, or just use the engine to go straight to PDF/Doc/XLS etc. > > There are two books on the topic, 'A field guide to reporting' and one > about deployment, they are well worth buying. > > Kym wrote: > > Hi, > > > Has anyone used BIRT reporting (eclipse plug-in) with POI? Just > > wondering if there were any gotcha's or problems/bugs with this. I'm > > starting a huge reporting project and was thinking of using this, I > > know it's fairly new, so I wanted to get some dirt on it before I > > delve into it. > > > Thanks for any input!! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
