looking for a powerful frontend/teport generator

Started by Clemens Eissererabout 16 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Clemens Eisserer
linuxhippy@gmail.com

Hi,

Sorry for beeing a bit off-topic.
Recently I've done some database-fontends, which I used
java+swingset+netbeans-gui-builder for.
Compared to plain java development is quite fast - however I wonder
wether you could recommend db-fontend generators like the infamous
access.

What I've found so far was either:
- extremly expensive
- not compatible with free DBs (like postgres)
- not powerful
- not cross-platform

Does anybody know tools which don't have properties like listed above?

Thank you in advance, Cleens

#2Oliver Kohll - Mailing Lists
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In reply to: Clemens Eisserer (#1)
Re: [pgsql-general] looking for a powerful frontend/teport generator

On 29 Mar 2010, at 14:33, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Sorry for beeing a bit off-topic.
Recently I've done some database-fontends, which I used
java+swingset+netbeans-gui-builder for.
Compared to plain java development is quite fast - however I wonder
wether you could recommend db-fontend generators like the infamous
access.

What I've found so far was either:
- extremly expensive
- not compatible with free DBs (like postgres)
- not powerful
- not cross-platform

Does anybody know tools which don't have properties like listed above?

Thank you in advance, Cleens

Hello, there are one or two (including one I developed) under 'GUI builders' at pgFoundry:
http://pgfoundry.org/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=323

Regards
Oliver Kohll

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