ReportingEngines has announced a new version of their Formula One e.Report Engine that includes the ability to access and generate reports from in-memory Java objects, in addition to RDBMS, EJBs, flat files and XML data streams. The report engine is a Java tool for extracting, formatting, and delivering data as PDF, XML, DHTML, HTML, CSV, or email reports.
Check out Formula One e.Report Engine.
Their press release talks about the new features and gives interesting opinions as to why reporting from in-memory objects as a datasource is better than reporting from RDBMS data.
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New reporting tool toutes in-memory Java object support (20 messages)
- Posted by: Floyd Marinescu
- Posted on: August 14 2003 13:46 EDT
Threaded Messages (20)
- New reporting tool toutes in-memory Java object support by Sandeep Dath on August 14 2003 15:21 EDT
- New reporting tool toutes in-memory Java object support by Sandeep Dath on August 14 2003 15:21 EDT
- New reporting tool toutes in-memory Java object support by Srinivas Chidumalla on August 14 2003 03:49 EDT
- New reporting tool toutes in-memory Java object support by Sandeep Dath on August 14 2003 15:21 EDT
- or another I use by Vic Cekvenich on August 14 2003 18:56 EDT
- New reporting tool toutes in-memory Java object support by andy yang on August 14 2003 21:14 EDT
- That is all good...how do I use it with J2EE? by ohIDidntKnowThat ohIDidntKnowThat on August 14 2003 23:45 EDT
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try cocoon! by peter neumcke on August 15 2003 02:43 EDT
- Re: Try Cocoon by George de la Torre on August 15 2003 10:59 EDT
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RE: try cocoon! by Konstantin Ignatyev on August 15 2003 12:50 EDT
- JasperReports/JFreeReport by genri como on August 16 2003 05:38 EDT
- RE: That is all good...how do I use it with J2EE? by fdsa jk; on August 15 2003 04:06 EDT
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Re: That is all good...how do I use it with J2EE? by Nebojsa Vasiljevic on August 15 2003 06:41 EDT
- Still looking for a good Java report writer by Ken Freeman on August 23 2003 10:27 EDT
- Required help to configure JBoss with Jasper report by NILESH JANI on October 20 2004 02:35 EDT
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That is all good...how do I use it with J2EE? by Tilo Christ on August 15 2003 09:37 EDT
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Re: StyleReport/Pro by Marko Milicevic on August 18 2003 09:01 EDT
- Not impressed by Casper Caspersen on August 20 2003 05:28 EDT
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Re: StyleReport/Pro by Marko Milicevic on August 18 2003 09:01 EDT
- That is all good...how do I use it with J2EE? by Sandeep Dath on August 15 2003 09:37 EDT
- Have you tried Apache FOP? by Paul Smith on August 15 2003 11:37 EDT
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try cocoon! by peter neumcke on August 15 2003 02:43 EDT
- That is all good...how do I use it with J2EE? by ohIDidntKnowThat ohIDidntKnowThat on August 14 2003 23:45 EDT
- New reporting tool toutes in-memory Java object support by Sandeep Dath on August 15 2003 09:37 EDT
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New reporting tool toutes in-memory Java object support[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Sandeep Dath
- Posted on: August 14 2003 15:21 EDT
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Isn't ReportingEngines an Acutate subsidiary?
Sandeep -
New reporting tool toutes in-memory Java object support[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Sandeep Dath
- Posted on: August 14 2003 15:21 EDT
- in response to Sandeep Dath
Isn't ReportingEngines an Acutate subsidiary?
Actuate, I mean. -
New reporting tool toutes in-memory Java object support[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Srinivas Chidumalla
- Posted on: August 14 2003 15:49 EDT
- in response to Sandeep Dath
Yes It iS. -
or another I use[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Vic Cekvenich
- Posted on: August 14 2003 18:56 EDT
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
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New reporting tool toutes in-memory Java object support[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: andy yang
- Posted on: August 14 2003 21:14 EDT
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Good news!! -
That is all good...how do I use it with J2EE?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: ohIDidntKnowThat ohIDidntKnowThat
- Posted on: August 14 2003 23:45 EDT
- in response to andy yang
I have not found one decent report generator that could be used with J2EE apps...something that could convert say xml to do and xls format. I guess all reporting tools are all for the Swing world...J2EE apps are an afterthought!I hear itext(is that what it is called) is good to generate pdf. But like I said above nothing to convert xml to doc or sml to xls. -
try cocoon![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: peter neumcke
- Posted on: August 15 2003 02:43 EDT
- in response to ohIDidntKnowThat ohIDidntKnowThat
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Re: Try Cocoon[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: George de la Torre
- Posted on: August 15 2003 10:59 EDT
- in response to peter neumcke
Yes, I agree, don't know why Cocoon hasn't been more popular. We are using Cocoon for all of our J2EE user interfaces.
Peter, like to know how you're using Cocoon with J2EE. Perhaps we can stir up some discussions here with TSS... -
RE: try cocoon![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Konstantin Ignatyev
- Posted on: August 15 2003 12:50 EDT
- in response to peter neumcke
Tools like Cocoon (XML/XSLT transformation) might be very flexible but in my experience they are far from being convenient and far from boosting productivity. It is plain stupid to code FO coordinates manually when any decent WYSIWYG report editor can do the job in 1/100 of the time. I think that old good report generators approach is the best in many cases.
Personal toolset:
- we do use Jasper and iReport on production and very pleased with them. By the way: Jasper Report directly support using collection of java beans as a data source.
- have used rReport (http://rreport.8m.com/ )and liked it;
- sometimes do use XML/XSLT transformation for reporting, but it is less convenient and we have plans to get rid of it.
PS: Have considered buying e.Report Engine but pricing model did not satisfied us. -
JasperReports/JFreeReport[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: genri como
- Posted on: August 16 2003 17:38 EDT
- in response to Konstantin Ignatyev
JasperReports was designed with the abstraction of different data sources in mind. That's what makes it a winner. (JFreeReport the same). We implemented its DataSource interface to implement holders of tabular data that come from different sources (RDBMS-s,flat files,EJB-s and XML streams).
Used in conjunction with the iReport designer they really make a good team and boost the productivity.
Hope to see the same level of data abstraction from Formula One and...even more
Genri -
RE: That is all good...how do I use it with J2EE?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: fdsa jk;
- Posted on: August 15 2003 04:06 EDT
- in response to ohIDidntKnowThat ohIDidntKnowThat
I use RootRiver Delta (http://www.rrsys.com) for reporting with J2EE apps. In detail, that's PCL 5 for printing, PDF for previews, and CSV for delivering data to Excel users.
HTH
Fokko -
Re: That is all good...how do I use it with J2EE?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Nebojsa Vasiljevic
- Posted on: August 15 2003 06:41 EDT
- in response to ohIDidntKnowThat ohIDidntKnowThat
I have not found one decent report generator that could be used with J2EE
> apps...something that could convert say xml to do and xls format. I guess
> all reporting tools are all for the Swing world...J2EE apps are an
> afterthought! I hear itext(is that what it is called) is good to generate
> pdf. But like I said above nothing to convert xml to doc or sml to xls.
I use Jasper Reports + iReport for paper reports (through PDF), POI for Excel reports and JSP for HTML reports. If you want to tailor report to specific target format, you have to use specific technology.
For instance, sometimes you should put formula in Excel cell instead of calculated value, let Excel to break pages, do subtotals, draw charts and calculate pivot tables. For this kind of Excel reports you may use open source Jakarta POI, Formula One e.Spreadsheet Engine or COM interface (directly or through generated VBScrip).
Nebojsa -
Still looking for a good Java report writer[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Ken Freeman
- Posted on: August 23 2003 22:27 EDT
- in response to Nebojsa Vasiljevic
We're using JReport (from JInfoNet) for a report writer, and it's adequate, with mediocre support. I played a bit with iReport/JasperReports and it seems to be close but not quite up to the JReport quality level.
Has anyone tried Crystal's Java support? I know it's Windows only, but they claim to support data sources from any Java class that implements ResultSet (this is very similar to JReport). -
Required help to configure JBoss with Jasper report[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: NILESH JANI
- Posted on: October 20 2004 02:35 EDT
- in response to Nebojsa Vasiljevic
Hello Friend,
We are running 150 bedded NON-PROFITABLE hospital in India and have started development of Hospital Management System using JAVA platform. We also inquired for the help which is paid from Jasper report creator but we got the reply that, that paid help is not updated and we would not find help to configure Jasper report with JBOSS server.
We have decided to use Jasper report engine tool for reporting purpose. As to generate report directly using Jasper report, we are using iReport tool to design report and iReport uses jasper report engine and create .jasper file as the output.
I started and run successfully iReport tool for create report. Now i want to run same report with JBoss Application server.
Could you provide step by step information on how to configure Jasper report engine with Jboss server and then where to place .jasper file and how to access and run same report from .jsp file ?
We are in hurry so please send us reply as early as possible.
Any suggession would be appriciated.
Thanks in advance.
Kartik Mehta
Software Engineer -
That is all good...how do I use it with J2EE?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Tilo Christ
- Posted on: August 15 2003 09:37 EDT
- in response to ohIDidntKnowThat ohIDidntKnowThat
Hi,
I use StyleReport/Pro by InetSoft. I have been very satisfied. Does HTML/DHTML, PDF, CSV, Excel, RTF, Postscript, CSV.
It is commercial, but worth it. Integrates well with any datasource. Has a very good API.
Tilo -
Re: StyleReport/Pro[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Marko Milicevic
- Posted on: August 18 2003 09:01 EDT
- in response to Tilo Christ
Tilo, the StyleReport/Pro (InetSoft) demos look nice. Do you know how much it costs (ballpark)?
Thanks. -
Not impressed[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Casper Caspersen
- Posted on: August 20 2003 05:28 EDT
- in response to Marko Milicevic
Well, tried the trial Formula One e.Report ..
wanted to access our EJB datasource, but no dice ..
first of all, the dialog where you enter all the java.naming info is broken. You can enter one thing, but it'll remember another no matter how many times you retype it, hit enter, apply etc.. not even reopening the dialog will help on this, one solution : restart the application. Not good.
second, getting it all right the first time(and only time you get), i'll get a ClassCastException. no stack trace no nothing.. of course i've set up classpath to all essentials, even tried including the same j2ee.jar thinking it could be EJBObject or similar.. still no dice..
So standing evaluation of the EJB connectivety from here is : thumbs down.. -
That is all good...how do I use it with J2EE?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Sandeep Dath
- Posted on: August 15 2003 09:37 EDT
- in response to ohIDidntKnowThat ohIDidntKnowThat
Have you tried EspressReport?
Sandeep -
Have you tried Apache FOP?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Paul Smith
- Posted on: August 15 2003 11:37 EDT
- in response to ohIDidntKnowThat ohIDidntKnowThat
A year ago I wrote a reporting tool for a J2EE app. Generated XSL-FO from a servlet which could be processed by a customer specified XSL style sheet and then ran through Apache FOP to produce PDF.
It worked OK, had problems because FOP creates a DOM tree of the XSL-FO which is a fairly verbose XML format anyway so it ended up using vast amounts of memory (like 200-300Mb for large multi-page reports) to create the PDF. Quality wasn't bad though.
FOP can be found at http://xml.apache.org/fop/
Info on XSL-FO can be found at https://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/
XEP which is a commercial tool from RenderX that does the same as FOP can be found at http://www.renderx.com/
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New reporting tool toutes in-memory Java object support[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Sandeep Dath
- Posted on: August 15 2003 09:37 EDT
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
I think the key point being made here (by the ReportingEngine folks)is the ability to use Java objects and consequentially an existing object/domain model to design reports, as opposed to being constrained to work with both relational and object-oriented paradigms for reporting/analysis/mining and transactional needs respectively.
It would be good to have an open source tool that could do this. I think that it also wouldn't be too difficult to layer the infrastructure over an ORM tool such as Hibernate, so that reports will be (mostly) portable across databases.
Sandeep