Best tool to POST XML via HTTP and analyze results

[CRCarl]

All -

I would like to use JasperServer installed on a linux box to create XML that I put to a HTTP server and then turn the results (product orders status) into a report.

 

I think I can do this if I write the results to a file and then use the XMLfiledatasource but is there a way to skip this step? Is there a way to create a report in iReport that takes some user input (order number), puts the query via XML to the HTTP server, gets the results and creates the report?

 

Do I need ETL?

 

Thanks for any suggestions, direction.

 

Craig

[swood]

If you look in the JasperReports extensions project on JasperForge at http://www.jasperforge.org/sf/projects/jasperreports-extentions

, you will see a JRDataSource that reads XML from a URL.

 

We have not included this in JasperServer.

 

 

Sherman

JasperSoft

[CRCarl]

Can I move the datasource from JasperReports to JasperServer?

 

Craig