Eclipse BIRT and BMax?

Hi, has anybody used Eclipse BIRT reporting tools to create reports from an MySQL database and view/print them from a BMax application? Or maybe there is another opensource MySQL reporting tool out there which works better with BMax?

I've been using wxMax > wxPDFDocument to create some reports but after a while it becomes a bit tedious, mainly if the reports have to be quite flexible. So a opensource, cross platform reporting tool which integrates with BMax would be fantastic...!

Thanx for any pointer or help!

Jasper is probably one of the best open source reporting tools... but it's Java-based.

I did have a look around for c/c++ tools, but haven't found much - unless someone else knows any better?


As far as doing-it-yourself. I've also thought about it. I'd be inclined to have something work a bit like Crystal Reports or StreamServe, where you have a GUI designer for your report layout. StreamServe also lets your script your reports, which gives you more flexibility too (like performing basic math etc).
Obviously, building your own would be a full-on proper project in itself.

Without a GUI, I guess I might build a suite of helper functions to do all the nitty gritty layout stuff, and call them as required.