Datavision reports and Apache FOP

• An enterprise business application needs to provide good support for generating printed documents such as reports and letters

• Apache FOP is an XSL FO processor

  • XSL FO (eXtensible Style Language – Formatting Objects) provides a mechanism to dynamically generate PDF and other types of documents from database content
  • Check out http://xml.apache.org/

• Datavision Reports generator

  • Datavision is an OSS reports generator similar to Crystal Reports or Oracle Reports Writer / Server
  • Checkout http://datavision.sourceforge.net/