Comparision of Java Reporting tools [closed]?

From my experience: Crystal is the standard for reporting. While not open source, they have a (free? ) eclipse plug-in.

BIRT is well integrated into eclipse. Available as stand-alone report writer, eclipse plug-in, and for deployment there is a sample j2ee web servlet. Great community at BIRT-Exchange.com.

JasperReports has more than just reporting, with a whole suite of BI tools. It's often compared to the Penthao BI suite. Related stackoverflow questions: stackoverflow.com/questions/2513534/birt... stackoverflow.com/questions/1101498/crys... stackoverflow.com/questions/2729118/what... Some links with comparisons: forums.pentaho.com/showthread.php?30998-... http://www.javareports.info (biased for Winward reporter?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reporting_software http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/software-development/TCH_SFT/221906-1686721 http://www.pentaho.com/docs/pentaho_reporting.php?&asset=pentaho_reporting_datasheet Some other notes: Crystal: closed-source, industry standard.

BIRT: open source, built on-top of eclipse, desktop / web based, has data cube support, outputs to html, xls, word doc, pdf Jasper: open source, runs on own server, other BI tools, uses jcharts for charts, has olap support, outputs to PDF, XML, HTML, CSV, XLS, RTF, TXT Pentaho: open source, runs on own server, other BI tools, has olap support.

1 +1 Excellent answer. I've found a link to another comparison of the three open source tools mentioned above, here: innoventsolutions. Com/… – Mark Bannister Sep 14 '10 at 10:16 @Mark - Great link / comparison matrix - I've been looking for something like that to refer to for awhile!

– Adam Sep 15 '10 at 15:18 Thanks Adam and Mark. The links you've shared and comments are more than enough for me to get going. I started with coming up with a tabular format more or less same as innoventsolution.Com link, but I soon realized, I might need to elaborate those points to make it more informative.

Thank you very much again. – Vicky Oct 10 '10 at 11:57.

Please also add Windward to the list (disclaimer - I'm the CTO there). It's a very powerful Java (and . Net) reporting engine.It's distinct feature is you design reports in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint so it's very quick & easy to create reports.

And non-programmers can create their own reports.

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