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The Definitive Guide to iReport View Larger Image | Giulio Toffoli
Apress, Paperback, Published August 2007, 352 pages, ISBN 1590599284 | List Price: $44.99
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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 iReport. This definitive, authoritative book from JasperForge covers
the following:
- Covers iReport as an intuitive and easy-to-use visual report builder/designer
for JasperReports, written in 100% pure Java.
- Shows how users can visually edit complex reports with charts, images, and
subreports, as iReport is integrated with leading open source chart libraries
for Java
- Demonstrates how the data to print can be retrieved through several methods
including multiple JDBC connections, TableModels, JavaBeans, XML, MDX, EJBQL,
Hibernate, and so forth
What you'll learn
- Understand the iReport and JasperReports installation process and fundamental
concepts.
- Build your very first simple report.
- Set up and implement types of datasources including a JDBC connection, a
custom datasource, and XML datasources.
- Explore iReport plug-ins.
- Create simple and complex charts.
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 Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 2 Basic Notions of JasperReports
Chapter 3 Report Structure
Chapter 4 Report Elements
Chapter 5 Fonts and Styles
Chapter 6 Fields, Parameters, and Variables
Chapter 7 Bands and Groups
Chapter 8 Subreports
Chapter 9 Datasources and Query Executers
Chapter 10 Internationalization
Chapter 11 Scriptlets
Chapter 12 Templates
Chapter 13 Charts
Chapter 14 Subdatasets
Chapter 15 Crosstabs
Chapter 16 Other Interface Components
Chapter 17 Plug-Ins and Additional Tools
Chapter 18 Solutions to Common Problems
Chapter 19 iReport Options
Appendix A GNU General Public License
Appendix B DTD Definitions
Appendix C iReport and JasperReports Versions
Index
About the Author
Giulio Toffoli is a senior software engineer at JasperSoft Corporation, where
he serves as the iReport project leader. He has been developing Java applications
since 1999 and founded the iReport project in 2001. During this time, Giulio
has enjoyed designing complex software architectures and implementing custom
software solutions with a focus on desktop and multitiered, web-based, client-server
applications using Java (J2EE/JEE) and open source technologies. Giulio has
a degree in computer science from the University of Bologna and currently resides
in Italy.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Aug 28, 2008 Federico from Rome
Great book to start working with iReport
If you don't know iReport and JasperReports this book is designed for you. The author of iReport, Giulio Toffoli, wrote this interesting book where you are introduced in the various features of this tool. The first part is dedicated to JasperReports, the understanding of how a report is represented, the different parts which can identify within it and anything connected.
Following many feature are analysed that has iReport, in order to define our report as we need. The main features analysed in the various chapters are as follows:
* Parameters, fields and variables * Subreport * Datasource and queries * Internationalization * Scriptlet * Template * Charts
Especially curated is the part relating to Datasource, also because there are many different ways to get a Datasource and to extract and manipulate the data. An excellent guide for those not familiar with these tools and wants to use them having to hand a good book.
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