Comparision of Java Reporting tools

Question

I was trying to prepare a comparision sheet covering available Reporting toos available in Java and their pros and cons.

There are lot of Open Source tools available:

JCCKit, JasperReports, BIRT, jCharts, DataVision, OpenReports etc.. though I could not find comparative study for these tools.

Would like to know, if you could throw some light on these?

Answer 1

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:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2513534/birt-vs-jasper-reports
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1101498/crystal-reports-or-eclipse-birt
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2729118/what-are-the-drawbacks-with-jasper-reports

Some links with comparisons:

• http://forums.pentaho.com/showthread.php?30998-JasperReports-vs-JFreeReports
• 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