Re: Next assignment - Reports

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pete,

Regarding Jasper Reports, I mentioned that I thought performance was 
poor in the Student Transcript case, but that was a purely subjective 
observation, and I need to keep all options open at this point; as I 
mentioned, I'm not too keen about reinventing the wheel.

I followed-up on Aaron's suggestion about BIRT, and stepped through the 
Flash demo at the Eclipse Web site.  The report designer plugin for 
Eclipse looks pretty good.  Actually, most WYSIWYG report designers 
follow the familiar metaphor of dragging data source elements to report 
bands (header, footer, group, detail, etc.).  I plan on going through 
more of the Birt Documentation later.

I got a call from Sal Stangarone at www.mrc-productivity.com.  They 
offer developer tools for reporting, and I appreciated their input.

I'll probably have a few more observations and post them in a reply, 
later.

Thanks,

Nathan.