Why not use a product like Crystal (or parallel crystal)? Have the report
generated as either HTML or PDF. Most report engines have that capability
now. I know Oracle Reports even supports report caching to service multiple
requests for the same report.
Thor HW
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From: Ashwath Narayan A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 6:13 AM
Subject: Re: Reports.
> Hi,
>
> For the kind of things you want to do at the browser end, Javascript is
the
> better way than Applets. Find whether the lower speed is due to heavier
> applets or coz of slower RDBMS. It's better to have a good servlet
engine,
> which implements some latest connection pooling techniques, rather than
> using ASP.
>
> --Ashwath
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Annu Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 5:41 PM
> Subject: Reports.
>
>
> > Hi All,
> > We have an application that we are planning to "Browser enable".
> >
> > This application generates huge reports with thousands of records.
> > Q1) Which is the best way to generate these reports (on the
> browser)?
> > Is there any Framework available for generating such reports ?
> (Let
> > me concentrate
> > on other important issues, than spend my time on formatting
> > reports).
> >
> > Q2) We also need to do field level verification as and when the
> user
> > is inputting data (even before the user submits the form. For example
the
> > verification is to be done when there is a change of focus). For
> > verification we have to go back to the database (The input data is
> > validated against some existing records in the database).
> > In the prototype we had build we had used Java applets and in it we were
> > calling ASP scripts to access the Database but it is extremly slow. Is
> > there any other way/architecture to increase the speed (using Servlets,
> etc
> > ...).
> >
> > Any kind of help or an idea is welcome.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Annu Singh
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
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