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 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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Where's the code?
The name suggests that this is a guide to development of reports, using an open source reporting API. That said, with APIs being the exclusive domain of the coder ... why isn't there any code? $50 down the drain.
Rating: - Not what I expected
This book is not what I expected, because there is not a single example, step by step, not even a basic one, that introduce you to the practice, is just like read an API documentation and that is all you get.
Rating: - Pretty pointless, with little useable information
JasperReports is a great reporting engine which suffers heavily from its utter lack of useable documentation. I bought this book, written by JasperReports' author Teodor Danciu in the hopes of finally getting adequate documentation. Boy! was I disappointed!
The book is an extremely superficial overview of the product; it's really no more than a glorified README file. Chapter 5 ("Large File Support") is a perfect case in point: The classes in the virtualization API are named, but nowhere ... Read More
Rating: - JasperReport was not a right API for programmers
This book does not provide enough details about the JasperReport especially about how to use it. It also be lack of examples.
I strongly recommand directly using iText for PDF file generating.
Rating: - Definitive Guide to JasperReports
I miss more Java code examples in the book, also it is too much an aseptic reference of the options of JasperReports, being really not a friendly or instructive book.
- Where's the code?
