Question

I am looking for a web based report designer supporting spring/hibernate. I have seen BIRTStudio but it is not free.

I came across this list http://java-source.net/open-source/charting-and-reporting which could be helpful. It might be appropriate to cookup my own small reporting engine. My core requirements:

• End user should be able to specify parameters for a report
• Report should be available in Excel form
• Report should use the same permissions scheme as the application (ie spring security)
• Report can be of two types (visual and textual) and among those types report can be of Chart or Map

Answer 1

I have found Pentaho to be a solution

http://community.pentaho.com/faq/waqr_faq.php

The target audience is not software developers, but it still seems a good start.