Reports in Java. What tool to use?

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Published on 2009-04-24T13:39:57Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 6:24 UTC
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Hi, I need to create some reports, in different formats (xls, pdf, rtf). I am currently using JasperReports, in conjunction with IReport. I have no major complaints about it (except for the cases when IReport messes up my xml files), but i've been having some problems with it, when exporting to xls files and with some "special" characters, such as '&'.

Is there a widely use alternative? Is JasperReports the right choice?

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