I built an application, SQL server database is used on back end and simple JSP is used in front end. Now i want to make some reports what software may i use which is not much complicated and free?
Another approach is to create a jsp that uses JSTL <sql:query> tag to get the result set and use a JSTL <c:forEach> tag to iterate it to display the report in HTML. By adding: <head> <script type="text/javascript> function printPage(){ window.print(); } </script> </head> and by adding a button at the bottom of the page: <input type="button" value="Print Report" on click="printPage()" />
You can fulfill your requirement with eclipse BIRT(Business Intelligent Reporting Tool), this is kind of plugin given by eclipse, and they has some sample applications also, you can download from http://www.eclipse.org/,