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  Report Generation API For Java? Sourabh Mhaisekar <sourabh8044@gmail.com> - 2013-04-07 07:52 -0700
    Re: Report Generation API For Java? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-04-07 11:28 -0400
      Re: Report Generation API For Java? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-04-15 21:50 -0400
        Re: Report Generation API For Java? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-04-16 05:39 -0300
    Re: Report Generation API For Java? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-04-07 16:08 -0700
      Re: Report Generation API For Java? Donkey Hottie <donkey@fredriksson.dy.fi> - 2013-04-08 12:52 +0300
        Re: Report Generation API For Java? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-04-08 05:52 -0700

#23361 — Report Generation API For Java?

I am developing tool for analysis of office data, for which I need to generate reports as per database entries. 
Report generation API should be able to draw various graphs such as Pie, Bar etc. 

Does anyone have any suggestion about what library should I use ? 

Thank you ! 

- Sourabh M. 

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#23363

On 4/7/2013 10:52 AM, Sourabh Mhaisekar wrote:
> I am developing tool for analysis of office data, for which I need to generate reports as per database entries.
> Report generation API should be able to draw various graphs such as Pie, Bar etc.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestion about what library should I use ?

     There's JFreeChart <http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/>, which
can draw many kinds of charts in Swing applications. I think it
can also render them as PNG or PDF.  The gotcha (last time I looked)
is that the library and JavaDoc are free, but the "How To" book
costs money.

     Google Charts <https://developers.google.com/chart/> lets you
embed graphs in HTML documents, using Javascript libraries.  You
can write the HTML from any language you choose, including Java,
and any modern browser can display them (without needing Java).

     OpenOffice.org has API bindings for various languages that would
let you generate OOo documents directly from your Java code. It's
quite un-Java-like, possibly because of the other language bindings
it needs to support. I don't know whether it works with LibreOffice,
or whether LO has similar API's. 
<http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/OpenOffice.org_Developers_Guide> 


-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid

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#23465

On 4/7/2013 11:28 AM, Eric Sosman wrote:
> On 4/7/2013 10:52 AM, Sourabh Mhaisekar wrote:
>> I am developing tool for analysis of office data, for which I need to
>> generate reports as per database entries.
>> Report generation API should be able to draw various graphs such as
>> Pie, Bar etc.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestion about what library should I use ?
>
>      There's JFreeChart <http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/>, which
> can draw many kinds of charts in Swing applications. I think it
> can also render them as PNG or PDF.  The gotcha (last time I looked)
> is that the library and JavaDoc are free, but the "How To" book
> costs money.

JFreeChart is actually quite nifty.

If OP need some examples, then I have some on the shelf.

(I will need to check them against current version though as
JFreeChart API is not completely stable)

>      OpenOffice.org has API bindings for various languages that would
> let you generate OOo documents directly from your Java code. It's
> quite un-Java-like, possibly because of the other language bindings

UNO is like COM and CORBA.

> it needs to support. I don't know whether it works with LibreOffice,
> or whether LO has similar API's.
> <http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/OpenOffice.org_Developers_Guide>

LO support UNO as well.

http://api.libreoffice.org/

Arne

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#23466

On 04/15/2013 10:50 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 4/7/2013 11:28 AM, Eric Sosman wrote:
>> On 4/7/2013 10:52 AM, Sourabh Mhaisekar wrote:
>>> I am developing tool for analysis of office data, for which I need to
>>> generate reports as per database entries.
>>> Report generation API should be able to draw various graphs such as
>>> Pie, Bar etc.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestion about what library should I use ?
>>
>>      There's JFreeChart <http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/>, which
>> can draw many kinds of charts in Swing applications. I think it
>> can also render them as PNG or PDF.  The gotcha (last time I looked)
>> is that the library and JavaDoc are free, but the "How To" book
>> costs money.
>
> JFreeChart is actually quite nifty.
>
> If OP need some examples, then I have some on the shelf.
>
> (I will need to check them against current version though as
> JFreeChart API is not completely stable)
[ SNIP ]

Yes, JFreeChart is good. I was prepared to recommend it as a solid 
alternative for a client last year, if they didn't go with a commercial 
alternative. They eventually purchased LogiInfo/LogiStudio products, 
which are seriously more high-powered than JFreeChart. But JFreeChart is 
a good choice.

I have some JFreeChart examples also.

The OP should not underestimate the amount of effort that implementation 
takes with something like JFreeChart, however. Particularly for first or 
second or third projects by people new to the library. Given a chart 
design and a datasource accessible by some technique, the better 
commercial offerings make it possible to knock out a very sophisticated 
user-input driven dynamic chart in less than an hour. Creating a similar 
chart with JFreeChart would take days.

So it's a very good idea to do some early implementations, even as early 
as application requirements gathering, as a proof-of-technology and an 
effort-estimation guide.

AHS

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#23373

On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 07:52:56 -0700 (PDT), Sourabh Mhaisekar
<sourabh8044@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

>I am developing tool for analysis of office data, for which I need to generate reports as per database entries. 
>Report generation API should be able to draw various graphs such as Pie, Bar etc. 
>
>Does anyone have any suggestion about what library should I use ? 

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/graph.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/reportgenerator.html
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal 
by pack rats and vandalized nightly. 
 ~ Roger Ebert (born: 1942-06-18 died: 2013-04-04 at age: 70)

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#23378

08.04.2013 02:08, Roedy Green kirjoitti:
>> Does anyone have any suggestion about what library should I use ? 
> 
> see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/graph.html
> http://mindprod.com/jgloss/reportgenerator.html
> 

Where is Eclipse BIRT?

-- 

Don't get stuck in a closet -- wear yourself out.

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#23380

On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:52:32 +0300, Donkey Hottie
<donkey@fredriksson.dy.fi> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>
>Where is Eclipse BIRT?

 http://mindprod.com/jgloss/reportgenerator.html

thanks for the tip.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal 
by pack rats and vandalized nightly. 
 ~ Roger Ebert (born: 1942-06-18 died: 2013-04-04 at age: 70)

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