Thanks for your responses. For those of you using Jasper: it requires jdbc so that mean you throw away your OJB layer and run straight SQL queries? This would seem to defeat the purpose a bit of having the nice O/R view on your data. I think that I am in a similar situation as Daniel, where my data model is very complex and collapsing it to records would be something to avoid.
Phil
Daniel Perry wrote:
I looked at using jasper reports for a current web app project, and i very nearly went down that route! However instead, i chose iText java pdf generating library (which i think jasper uses!)
My reason for this was that the reports i created were not simple record based things. They were report documents featuring many dynamically generated images, and the flow of the report didn't follow the ususal 'looping within groups' pattern that report generators use. Therefore the increased flexibility of iText came in useful.
Jasper will probably be used for some more typical reports for other parts of the project, as manually writing the code to generate pdf files with iText is comparatively long winded.
Daniel.
----- Original Message ----- > > From: Phil Warrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri 12/12/2003 11:13 AM GMT+08:00 To: OJB Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [OT] reporting tools best suited to OJB
Hi all,
I'm wondering what other tools people are using to create reports using OJB. Are there any that integrate well with the use of OJB? I would think that reporting and O/R mapping are separate concerns, but I'd be interested to know what OJB people have decided to use. I would be looking for something that can create pdf files and that is preferably open source. Apache FOP would be one candidate, but I don't know much about it yet.
Any responses would be most appreciated.
Phil
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