Output Data to Formated Report

[Steve Dyke]

Not sure this is the right area for this post.

I need some assistance on report output to the user. I am useing Websphere as my development environment. My idea is to have a form template on the server with fields bound to data fields. The user requests a report, the form template is filled in with desired record data and then presented to user as pdf file.

Is this possible and if so how can I make it happen?

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

The first part sounds like jsp/servlet stuff. I'm not sure about the pdf part.

[Jason Moors]

Hi Steve,

I think you could implement this requirement using Servlets and iText which is a open source PDF library.

http://www.lowagie.com/iText/

Regards
Jason

[Ulf Dittmer]

Two popular libraries to create reports are JasperReports and JFreeReport. The former seems to attract more attention, and can create PDFs (using iText internally).