Windward Studios has announced a new release of Windward Reports.

New features

Version 3.0 adds the following significant functionality to Windward Reports. Users can now:

Automatically insert and validate tags with AutoTag, the new tag editor.

Write Java Beans that perform final processing on the output of a tag.

Leverage a new tag <wr: function …/> that performs functions including sum, average, max, min, and count.

Map to SQL, XML or custom data sources.

Call Windward Reports directly from Java.

Call Windward Reports over the network from a client. (Clients are presently available for Java and .NET.)

About Windward Reports

Launched in 2002, Windward Reports is the only full-featured, robust J2EE/.NET reporting engine to use Microsoft Word as a layout tool, putting report-design and -generation power in the hands of the end user, technical or non-technical. Any Word user can easily and securely create reports with almost no learning curve. Also unique, Windward Reports implements in hours, offers affordable use-based pricing, and offers “prompt, fantastic” technical support via a 24/7 support forum and support contracts.

Windward Reports works by merging any XML, SQL or custom data source—or any combination—with a Microsoft Word report template. It feeds data into the template to create a what-you-see-is-what-you-get report that can be generated in PDF, .RTF, HTML, .TXT, or multipart-MIME-email format. Available as a Java library, Windward Reports runs as a standalone application or in an enterprise computing environment.

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Great tool,
customers are always impressed when they know that can edit their templates simply using MS Word (or OpenOffice of course) and not a new-to-learn-custom-visual-tool...

bye,
Luca Garulli
www.Pro-Netics.com (member of Orixo.com - The XML business alliance)
OrienTechnologies.com - Light ODBMS, All in one JDO solution

It would have been better if it was an OpenSource. Way to go JasperReports.:)