EGL provides the following external mechanisms for producing reports:
- The JasperReports engine creates reports in formats including
PDF, HTML, comma-separated, and plain text. This method offers the
greatest complexity, but requires downloading the open-source software.
For more information, see JasperReports.
- The Business Intelligence Reporting Tools (BIRT)
engine creates reports in HTML or PDF formats. The technology is described
in the EGL Programmer's Guide, in "Creating Reports with BIRT."
- The EGL text report engine creates plain text reports. For more
information, see EGL text reports.