reporting engine with a ROO app

[hatim]

Hello,

Can any one suggest a reporting engine to use, which is light weight (can later be adapted in the form of an addon to ROO)

I am looking into Jasper Reports and BIRT but they seem quite heavy.

[whyBish]

What do you mean by lightweight? BIRT/Jasper are 'well factored' which usually also means you need to do a bunch of legwork to get simple things done 'properly'. BIRT is quick enough to use if you are using eclipse designer, not sure about directly using its java objects though.

[helge]

Also, there's an Eclipse plug-in for Jasper that gives you a basic WYSIWYG report painter.
You can generate reports as jsp's very easily with this.

[whyBish]

Also, there's an Eclipse plug-in for Jasper that gives you a basic WYSIWYG report painter.
You can generate reports as jsp's very easily with this.

Cheers, I like the Jasper java model, but haven't used JR for years. Good to know it's got some ui now.

[wrochow]

I have created an addon for Roo called Jasperoo.
There is an introduction on my blog at: http://my.digitalface.ca/2011/03/jas...-jasperoo.html

The project is hosted on Google Code at: jasperoo.digitalface.ca.

Hope that helps.
Waldo