| Report Viewer WIhtin J2SE Application [message #104838] |
Thu, 05 January 2006 09:21  |
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Originally posted by: ljohnson.arinc.com
We are looking for a report engine that will integrate with both
web-based, and Swing based, applications. BIRT looks to be hands-down the
choice for the web-based solution; however, we would like to have a single
solution for both. Is there a viewer, or recommended practice, that will
allow us to embed BIRT reports into our Swing based applications as well?
Many thanks in advance.
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| Re: Report Viewer WIhtin J2SE Application [message #104920 is a reply to message #104838] |
Thu, 05 January 2006 11:02  |
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Originally posted by: m.n.com
Larry,
I have asked that a few times came up short. I(we) am about to finish
up Swing UI project that uses BIRT for the reporting (Note: The report
engine will run on the server as will all data access - via Hessian).
Below are the solutions I came up with.
1. Stream the PDF output to the client and use a PDF viewer.
There are no (good) $0.00 opensource pdf viewers. So you will need to
purchase one. The one, due to licensing/$$, I am using is
http://www.qoppa.com/jpvindex.html. YMMV.
2. Display the report in an embedded browser. This can be using it to
show the PDF (via Adobe Reader) or the web report.
a. Use JDIC - I can't hide the address bar (that I know of) and I don't
know if I can pass uid/pwd that I will already have.
b. Use a commercial browser (stream the pdf to the client or view the
reports/pdf on the web). The ones I saw didn't readily give me prices.
c. Use JRex - http://jrex.mozdev.org/ (stream the pdf to the client or
view the reports/pdf on the web). I would have used this. But I was
unsure about the webstarting it with all the stuff I am using (even
though the demo is webstarted) and I couldn't get the loadStream to
work. Since I got approval for a embedded PDF viewer, I went with that.
But JRex is my fall back.
3. Stream the PDF output to the client, save to the file system and
launch Adobe Reader. This requires Reader to be installed (proper
version), access to the file system and clean up issues.
Larry Johnson wrote:
> We are looking for a report engine that will integrate with both
> web-based, and Swing based, applications. BIRT looks to be hands-down
> the choice for the web-based solution; however, we would like to have a
> single solution for both. Is there a viewer, or recommended practice,
> that will allow us to embed BIRT reports into our Swing based
> applications as well?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
>
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