The Definitive Guide to JasperReports

Description

JasperForge.org is the open source development portal for the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, the JasperSoft Business Intelligence solution that delivers comprehensive tools for data access, data integration, analysis, and reporting, including JasperReports. This definitive, authoritative covers the following:

* Shows the power this open source Java reporting tool has and the ability to deliver rich content onto the screen, to the printer, or into PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV and XML files
* Demonstrates how JasperReports can be used in a variety of Java-enabled applications, including Java EE or web applications, to generate dynamic content
* Teaches you how to create page-oriented, ready-to-print documents in a simple and flexible manner What you'll learn
* Enable the embeddable Java reporting library, which you can embed in any host application to let you plug in Java and Groovy code.
* Handle complex reports, subreports with highly complex layouts, pixel-perfect page-oriented output for the Web or print, and crosstabbing, and output reports in PDF, XML, HTML, CSV, XLS, RTF, or TXT.
* Create integrated charting with comprehensive chat types.
* Use multilanguage Unicode and other native encodings, dynamic text localization, and localized date, number, and currency formatting.
* Scale with high-performance report generation with no limit to report size.
* Extend easily with built-in expressions and plug-ins for Java and Groovy code; integrate iReport visual report designer; and extend to other Eclipse or Swing-based designers.
* Access data flexibly with JasperReport's built-in support for JDBC, EJB, POJO, Hibernate, XML, and more. Who this book is for

This book is for business intelligence reporting tool users and developers who have a background primarily in Java and Java EE.

CONTENTS:

1 Introduction

2 Getting started

3 Working with report templates

4 Filling report templates

5 Handling generated reports

6 Large files support (report virtualizer)

7 API Overview

8 Report templates

9 Reporting data

10 Report sections

11 Report elements

12 Subreports

13 Datasets

14 Charts

15 Crosstabs

16 Scriptlets

17 Internationalization

18 Report exporters

19 Configuration files

20 Advanced JasperReports

21 Resources