Re: Next assignment - Reports

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Aaron Bartell wrote:
> I think if you look for one tool to do it all you will end up with
> nothing because there just isn't that tool out there.

Agreed.  Different tools are needed for different situations.  On the 
other hand, I'd like to settle on something that I can use myself, and 
train a few other developers, perhaps.

> Maybe in the end you will have a commercial product like MRC
> and one like what we are talking about here, who knows.

My primary focus is developing business applications, for now.  I need a 
solution for creating reports, myself.  It's hard to gain a foot-hold in 
the tools market because of big-name brands.  Consider that Web Query 
from Information Builders is bundled and available with IBM i, for 
example.

> The HTML to PDF is a cool idea.  Here's some open source Java
> code to do exactly that:
> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2006/jw-0410-html.html

Yes.  I read that article this morning.  Since you're more adept than I 
am at Java, how about you considering a port to IBM i?

Nathan.