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Are there any Open Source alternatives to Crystal Reports?
JasperReports if you're writing Java.
The java standard answer is often:
JasperReports: http://jasperforge.org
iReport: http://ireport.sourceforge.net
openreports: http://oreports.com/
Report Manager has been around for quite a few years. It's written in Delphi (at least it was originally) and has components that can be used in Delphi, but is usable via ActiveX or dll from just about any language. Now has a native .NET library too. Has a nifty report-serving webserver you can set up too. The designer gui looks and feels a little rough around the edges but it works.
http://reportman.sourceforge.net/
BIRT works pretty well.
How about i-net Clear Reports (used to be i-net Crystal-Clear).
Though not free, you should also consider this low-cost, non-free, non-open-source reporting solution that can fully compete with Crystal Reports - and is Java-based.
I think it's even more cost efficient than "free ones". A small company may have to think closely about free things, but will then have to invest into manpower to find out how everything works and so on. Large companies will for sure subscribe to premium support services that cost a lot. See this article for reference
i-net Clear Reports has a very low price tag with great support for free and even better premium support via yearly subscriptions.
Disclosure: Yeah, I work for the company who built this, so I'm biased. But I honestly believe in what I just wrote.
So far based on my research JasperSoft has turned out promising open source reporting tool… Matter of fact I am currently working on a huge project wherein I have started converting and building reports using JasperReports/iReports…
Every reporting tool has its own learning curve. The support group from and for Jasper and the quality of response that I have gotten so far is good.
Again at the end of the day it all comes down to what your business / organization needs.
You can use jasper report.
iReport is a very effective tool to develop jasper reports.
It supports almost all the facilities provided by crystal report like formatting, grouping, creation of charts etc.
Refer the link for tutorial:
http://www.opentaps.org/docs/index.php/Tutorial_iReports
iReport
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Does anyone know of a framework to create web forms that requires little code and can send form data to a database, email address, or other api such as Microsoft CRM? I am looking for a framework where I can define the form and fields in a database which then creates the form and web endpoint automatically. Ideally I would like the form data to be stored in a normalized database. A .net solution would be the best.
It sounds like you're looking for an off-the-shelf solution, of which there are many. #David indicated in his comment that Microsoft LightSwitch and InfoPath are viable options, to which I'd agree. These offer the path of least resistance -- minimal hassle for setup, and forms can more or less be created without any coding required by the user.
If you're feeling adventurous and want to use a more capable framework, Microsoft ASP.NET Webforms is another technology that does exactly what you want really, really well. It is considerably more dynamic/open/complex than Lightswitch/Infopath, but on the whole is an excellent option for someone that just needs to get editable forms/grids up and running in the shortest amount of time possible.
ASP.NET's drag and drop components are easy to use and configure -- you can literally wire up forms/grids to a database without having to code anything at all. Another great thing about using Webforms is that you get the support of the entire .NET framework, which as hundreds(?) of components that you can take advantage of (grids, widgets, charts, etc. etc.).
.NET itself is a framework PHP has lot of options in way that you are searching :)
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I'm looking for recommended tools and your experience with them for generating and viewing RDL (reporting definition language) files that can integrate well with a .NET application.
These are tools I've found so far. If you've worked with them and can give your experience (good and bad), ease of use, etc.. I'd love to learn. Our company is trying to choose a product for reporting.
http://www.sap.com/solutions/sap-crystal-solutions/index.epx
http://www.pebblereports.com/
http://gotreportviewer.com/
http://www.fyireporting.com/
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc917530.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/rdlproject.aspx
We need it to work with the 2005 schema at the very least:
Report Definition Schema
June 2005
Description
This schema describes the structure of the Report Definition Language (RDL), an XML schema for representing reports which includes query, calculation and layout metadata.
Schema for Report Definition Schema
ReportDefinition.xsd
Of those tools you've mentioned I've only worked with fyi reporting so I can't offer a comparison. We use the fyi libraries currently to generate reports on Windows mobile 6 devices integrating the fyi libraries with a .net compact framework application.
We also use fyi to generate PDFs from a server side console application built in .net 2.0.
Both have been in production and running without problems for around a year now.
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If been using "dbForge Query Builder" lately and I'm gotten used to the ease of building and testing a query, specially for those complex ones with inner joins, aliases and multiple conditionals.
The expiry date of the trial is about to come, and while wanting to remain on the legal side for this I'd rather not pay the 50USD it costs (although I must say it's pretty cheap for what it does).
So my question would be: Are there any free alternatives to replace this visual query builder? I've failed to find any and fear that my only two options are paying for it, or going to the dark side.
You may try FlySpeed SQL Query. It has the same powerful visual query builder and it's free if you don't need data export and printing.
You should try SQLyog, it has powerful visual query builder. It is very easy and intuitive to use.
I have found SQLeo, which I will use to show my colleagues how to build SQL queries. It is Java-based, so it will run on virtually any platform.
You will also need to install MySQL's Java Connector for SQLeo to be able to connect.
Think of it in terms of how much money/time it will help you make/save in the long run. Consider it a business expense. Yes, there are other free query builders out there, but they all take time to learn/get used to. If your happy with this one I'd say go for it.
That aside there generally are several ways you can reinstall the program and get one more month out of your free-trial if your still not quite sure its worth it.
Try EasyQueryBuilder.
It requires some configuration for your database at start but after that it's very easy to build queries with this tool - even for non-experienced users.
dbForge has an express version for MySQL that is free. I use the express version for MSSQL all the time.
EASY QUERY BUILDER is anything but easy if you're using MYSQL. Building a connection is impossible and their documentation is nonexistent. Don't waste your time.
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The crawler needs to have an extendable architecture to allow changing the internal process, like implementing new steps (pre-parser, parser, etc...)
I found the Heritrix Project (http://crawler.archive.org/).
But there are other nice projects like that?
Nutch is the best you can do when it comes to a free crawler. It is built off of the concept of Lucene (in an enterprise scaled manner) and is supported by the Hadoop back end using MapReduce (similar to Google) for large scale data querying. Great products! I am currently reading all about Hadoop in the new (not yet released) Hadoop in Action from manning. If you go this route I suggest getting onto their technical review team to get an early copy of this title!
These are all Java based. If you are a .net guy (like me!!) then you might be more interested in Lucene.NET, Nutch.NET, and Hadoop.NET which are all class by class and api by api ports to C#.
You May also want to try Scrapy http://scrapy.org/
It is really easy to specify and run your crawlers.
Abot is a good extensible web-crawler. Every part of the architecture is pluggable giving you complete control over its behavior. Its open source, free for commercial and personal use, written in C#.
https://github.com/sjdirect/abot
I've discovered recently one called - Nutch.
If you're not tied down to platform, I've had very good experiences with Nutch in the past.
It's written in Java and goes hand in hand with the Lucene indexer.
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I see that Pentaho wants to charge me for their software. How can I get to the underlying Open Source software for dashboards to see what it can do without having to deal with Pentaho marketing folks?
Most commercial open source editions have a community edition that the community hacks on if the license permits it*. Pentaho is no different from them and has a community edition.
In these cases, the "community edition" is not the same thing as the commercial product you would buy. You may find a lot of the gloss and even some, if not a lot of the features are missing. There's no support. Yadda yadda yadda. You get the picture.
*As others have noted, not all "open source" apps need to distribute the source code in the same way as, a GPL application would. Open source, in rawest forms, just means as a licensed user, you get to see the source code.
Just to provide detail on what pentaho do and dont provide - they do provide a very complete BI platform as part of the community edition.
The only things that the enterprise edition include are a web based dashboard designer and a few other bits and bobs - i.e. not very much at all.
As mentioned above the benefit to becoming a subscription customer with pentaho is that they provide support, which for us was very useful in our final implementation.
Check out their forums too though - they are very active, and as long as your questions arnt complete newbie ones they are very helpful too. I sometimes use the forums despite having a support agreement as i know it can be quicker.
"Open source" is not the same thing as "free" (either "as in beer" or "as in speech").
As much as I'm not a fan of Stallman in general, this article will probably help clear up the distictions a bit: Why "Open Source" misses the point of Free Software
Open Source != Free
IANAL, but I'd say you're bound to the license that the software is under.
Suds get your free download of the code from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/
They have an IRC chat channel as well that ive found to be extremely helpful.