So far we have been creating all our reports by writing JRXML templates by hand. There are several report designers that can help us visually generate JRXML templates. When using report designers, there is little or no need to edit JRXML templates by hand. Some of the existing report designers are standalone applications; others are plug-ins for IDEs or text editors.
The following table lists some of the available IDE/Editor plug-in report designers:
Name |
IDE/Editor |
URL |
---|---|---|
JasperAssistant |
Eclipse | |
Sunshine Reports |
Eclipse | |
JasperReportsViewer |
JEdit |
Some of the standalone report designers include JasperPal (http://jasperpal.sourceforge.net) and iReport ( http://ireport.sourceforge.net). However, iReport is the official report designer for JasperReports.
In this chapter, we will be focusing on iReport since covering...