Anyone know of a Java reporting tools which has a web based visual report designer?

Question

We're currently evaluating different Java reporting engines, and having a web-based ad-hoc report designer is a requirement.

We don't need anything too fancy, but we need users to be able to define a report with columns X, grouped by Y, sorted by Z, etc... We've found that many of the open source tools do have graphical report designers, but the designers are typically not web based. (For example, iReport from JasperReports seems to be an application, not a web tool)

Can anyone recommend a reporting tool which meets this web-based requirement?

Answer 1

Apparently JasperServer is exactly that (see "Drag and drop ad hoc report building" - http://www.jaspersoft.com/jasperserver). Haven't used it myself though.

Answer 2

Use Crystal Reports for JSP pages. It's a good tool.

Answer 3

(full disclosure: yes, i work for i-net software)

Looks to me like our own i-net Crystal-Clear might work great.

• Can read Crystal Reports templates
• Supports any JDBC data source
• Has a web-based (and also Swing-based) ad hoc report creation tool
• ...as well as a full-fledged report designer and report server
• includes a report repository for storing reports

Check out our Ad Hoc demo and tell us what you think.