Are you seeking a user-friendly Java web report development tool?
Background
“I am learning Java, and I find it really troublesome. Especially when I want to create a form, I have to write all the controls. So I ask all of you for help. Is there a Java web report development tool which can add control directly without writing so much boring code like Visual Basic 6.0?“
I read the post above in a famous Java forum. In a short time, many kind members gave their own answers to the question, and those various answers listed about 10 Java development tool including Eclipse. However, they didn’t really solve the problem.
Maybe you have the same question with the guy. Then, is there a Java development tool which can change the web application develop mode from Java’s B/S web application coding to C/S graphical programming mode like VB?
What about Eclipse? Programmers familiar with it know that it isn’t a good interface design tool. Combined with development modes of various Java web application frameworks, it provides developers flexibility. However, it also increases programming complexity.
For example, there is development project to make a Business MIS (Management Information System) based on webapps and database with Java, and most Web pages are used to do addition, cancellation, amendment, inquiry to database.
According to a common MIS project, it needs a great number of people to work on the project. Artists will design the html interfaces of all pages, and system architects will choose various architectures (struts, spring, habernate, etc.) to build application programs’ basic frameworks, and engineers familiar with Java performance optimization will build underlying performance controls.
Even if we have enough budgets and time to do such a mass of work above, programmers will take a lot of time to study those complex architectures. Moreover, we have to deal with various frustrating problems caused by those complex architectures in the maintenance phase.
Solution
In fact, we have a better choice. We can use RAQ Report to realize our aims easily. RAQ Report is a pure Java reporting tool with real Excel-like design style. You can imagine the feeling of satisfying all the needs of end users with RAQ Report. I believe it is wonderful for project leader, programmers, and end users.
Maybe you will doubt is it really that a Java reporting tool can realize so many functions without writing code. Well, you can refer to the examples below.
Please remember that all those examples are designed with a graphical designer without writing complex Java code.
Examples
1. The input page of Employee ID.
1) The access relation between cells and database can be implemented with simple definition.
2) The data of Title, Region, and City are from the code table in database, users can choose in the dropdown list.
3) Double click the photo, and then users can select, upload or save a photo.
2. User can insert, add, delete, and submit a record easily in the graphical interface without programming. 
3. With the legality check function of RAQ Report, if users input an illegal record, a prompt box will appear. Then, users can modify it in the graphical interface with ease.
4. Sometimes, there are easy relations between different fields, and users can describe these relations with simple expressions. Then, the automatic computation of RAQ Report can help a lot.
Source: Knowledge Base of RAQ Report
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