I will explain about my application.Mine is stand alone swing based application.we need a reporting tool to generate reports.Those can invoke from my java client application.Could you plese let me know about Crystal reports.Will it be helpful to us?What version of crystal report we need and what license we need?Do we know any language to develope reports using crystal reports?I would appreciate your quick reply.
Thanks,
Damodar.p

Hello Damodar,

Deciding a Reporting tool is a difficult task 'coz it is based on a lot of conditions/requirements one is looking out to be fulfilled . So, it will be difficult for me to directly suggest that Crystal Report would be the right tool for you ,without knowing the features that you are looking out for.

Since I have worked only on Crystal Reports , I can talk only about pros and cons of using Crystal Reports .

I can suggest that you visit http://www.crystaldecisions.com/products/crystalreports/features.asp?ref=crystalreportsFeatures_LSLinks which talks about the features of Crystal Reports and, http://www.crystaldecisions.com/products/crystalreports/whatsnew.asp?ref=crystalreportsNew_LSLinks which talks about What's new in Crystal Reports. They might probably be able to help you !!

To know more about Licenses,please visit http://support.crystaldecisions.com/communityCS/TechnicalPapers/cr85_asp_licensing.pdf .

Crystal Reports requires you to know some SQL to query the database.

Regards,

Pooja M.,
http://home.attbi.com/~pooja.mohan