After generating reports for a long time, I found something really strange. As you know a great number of reporting tool vendors do their best to attract users. Now more and more programmers prefer combining Jsper reports with ireports. Of course you’ve already heard about these well known representatives of open source free Java tool. This tool is often discussed on specialized Internet forums and people keep on asking new questions about it.

Of course you want to know why people are so interested in this conjunction of Jsper report and ireport. The matter is that they are Java based reporting tools. And I know three reasons why users go on using these tools. So the first reason is that these tools are available to anybody for free. Perhaps it’s the most convincing reason to choose these tools. Secondly these tools are really professional ones and no one is going to underestimate it. And thirdly I’ve just mentioned above that they are Java based tools.

This means that the vast majority of people have already realized that it’s advisable to make reports with the help of professional reporting tools. It’s the key to success. It’s a great thing that these days we can use so many pure Java reporting tools. For example you can choose RAQ or JATOOLS if you wish. As you can see many users want to use free tools. But we don’t know for sure whether free tools are ideal ones or not.

It goes without saying that this free combination of Jsper report and ireport gives us a lot. To be exact in this case we can use a reporting tool with a perfect usability. We can use an open source code having rather a flexible customization capability. We’ll have a complete control at a low cost. But to say the truth I really doubt that this solution is perfect.

From my point of view the tabling capabilities of this reporting tool combination isn’t so good indeed. Secondly reports generated by these tools are very hard to read. Besides this they are chargeable.

Thirdly the tabling logicalities of thee tools aren’t strong enough. So very often users face serious difficulties when trying to make detailed reports with them. For example sometimes it’s impossible to make a report directly. So in this case you need to write some SQL statements troublesomely or you need to ask your customers to change their requirements unreasonably.

So you’d better shift to chargeable reporting tools. Their tabling capability is much better when compared to free ones. Besides this you can always consult the technical support if you face some troubles. Of course it’s up to you to decide on choosing reporting tools for your business.

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