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The Definitive Guide to JasperReports
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Chapter 1: Getting Started
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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 book from JasperForge
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 is This Book For?
This book is for business intelligence reporting tool users and developers
who have a background primarily in Java and Java EE.
Table of Contents
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 2 Working with Report Templates
Chapter 3 Filling Report Templates
Chapter 4 Handling Generated Reports
Chapter 5 Large File Support
Chapter 6 API Overview
Chapter 7 Report Template Structure
Chapter 8 Reporting Data
Chapter 9 Report Sections
Chapter 10 Report Elements
Chapter 11 Subreports
Chapter 12 Datasets
Chapter 13 Charts
Chapter 14 Crosstabs
Chapter 15 Scriptlets
Chapter 16 Internationalization
Chapter 17 Report Exporters
Chapter 18 Configuration Files
Chapter 19 Advanced JasperReports
Index
About the Author
Teodor Danciu, founder, architect, and lead develooper of JasperReports, started
JasperReports in 2001. Teodor has a 7 years’ experience as a software engineer
working on ERP, B2B, B2C, and other database-related applications. He has been
working with Java for many years and has successfully led development teams
on numerous J2EE projects. For the last 2 years, he's been working with Hibernate,
SWT, and the Avalon Framework for porting a large ERP system to the Java platform.
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