>>>>> "Celeste" == Celeste Haseltine <Haseltine> writes:
Celeste> I'm interested in knowing what options other people have used
successfully,
Celeste> and not so successfully, to generate and display report information and
Celeste> format it for printer output in jsp/servlets. Our product is a
jsp/servlet
Celeste> intranet application, and we would like to now add a report generation
Celeste> feature for the management team. There will be numerous types of reports,
Celeste> and all will utilize production data contained in the database. I've
looked
Celeste> into Crystal Reports, but it does have port conflict issues with our
Celeste> application server JRUN 3.1. I know that XML format is great for
Celeste> displaying, but I understand that it has limitations when it comes to
Celeste> formatting the report for various types of printer output. Other than
Celeste> looking into PDF format, does anyone else have any suggestions/options
that
Celeste> they would like to recommend?
You might consider generating the report as XML, as an intermediate format.
You could then use a "plain" XSLT stylesheet to format the report as HTML, or
use full-blow FOP to generate PDF. I don't know how well using XML would
facilitate the other report tools like JasperReports or iText.
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