The Definitive Guide to JasperReports

TITLE : The Definitive Guide to JasperReports (Expert’s Voice) (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by Teodor Danciu (Author), Lucian Chirita (Author)
PUBLISHER : Apress publisher
ISBN : 1590599276
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : August 24, 2007
LANGUAGE : English
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.
URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590599276/
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