Lightweight Java reporting engine [closed]

Question

I'm looking for a lightweight java reporting engine to be embedded in an applet application.

My first option was Jasper Reports, but the jar is over 2Mb, a little too heavy (and too bloated) for my needs. I don't know if there is modular jasper distribution, with funcionalities split in several jars (like html rendering, pdf, excel, compilation, runtime, etc).

I need to preview the report using Swing and print it. PDF export is a plus.

Answer 1

Jasper Reports does include a jar with basic funcionality to preview and print reports. It's packaged as jasperreports-x.x.x-applet.jar, with around 350k.

Answer 2

I know this is a bit late, but with your requirements it seems like a perfect fit would be the reporting solution the company I work for puts out: i-net Clear Reports (used to be i-net Crystal-Clear).

• Lightweight and simple viewer (similar to a PDF viewer)
• Very simple-to-use API
• Can export into a bunch of different formats including PDF
• Supports any JDBC data source, or also manual setting of data
• Can run Crystal Reports templates
• We also offer a free and fully functional report designer

Check it out and tell us what you think.