Report Writer

We are creating a large "n-tier", object-oriented application with a Windows 95/NT client, a CORBA-based application/logic server, and an object/relational database server. The application server employs persistent object capabilities by storing the data in the database server.

We are trying to find tools or a report writer that works with CORBA or object-oriented databases. Most all of the report writers such as Crystal Reports are oriented towards only SQL databases as the data source for the creation of a report. With all of the efforts in Object Databases, CORBA, etc., I am a little bit lost as to why there are no report writing tools that use object methods/properties as the data source.

Most all report writers consist of a visual report builder (essentially a code generator for report layout/logic) and a runtime report engine (essentially an interpreter of the code form the report builder). We would like to maintain those same capabilities except have the ability to access methods/properties of the CORBA objects instead of specifying relational tables and ODBC as the data source.

Does anyone have any experience or recommendations in this area?

Thanks in advance for your assistance...

Dan Z. Sokol
Renaissance Engineering
Dayton, Ohio
dan_at_ren-eng.com
937-224-1414 Received on Sun Feb 09 1997 - 00:00:00 CST