Apologies if this is not the right forum.
We are currently developing an application using
Struts, Spring and Hibernate.
There is a requirement to pull data from the database and display it in a
number of formats including HTML, PDF, XSL. We're aware that iReport and BIRT would satisfy this requirement, however we'd like to canvas some opinions about these tools to help us decide which one we should commit to. There is nothing special about the data; it comprises mostly textual data gathered from user forms. Ideally we would like to choose an option that will help in future proofing our application. Is it possible to comment on this in reference to this 2 tools. I suspect this is a difficult question to answer.
Finally I'd appreciate it if some one could clarify the following statement
at the Amazon.com customer review [by Thomas Duffbert] for the book
"
BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting " by Peh, Hanneman, Hague
The only thing that wasn't covered too much was how to roll this out to an end-user base without having to make your audience experts in Eclipse. It seems as if there must be some way to package these reports up to shield the user from the internals.
Does this mean that the user can only view the report in eclipse?
Most likely I mis-interpreted this.
This is not quite what we want. Ideally we would like a button that the
user clicks and this invokes the workflow to generate a report in say
pdf, xsl format which is subsequetly displayed in the browser window.
Thanks in advance,
kind regards,
Mo