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Pentaho 8 Reporting for Java Developers

By : Jasmine Kaur, Francesco Corti
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Pentaho 8 Reporting for Java Developers

By: Jasmine Kaur, Francesco Corti

Overview of this book

This hands-on tutorial, filled with exercises and examples, introduces the reader to a variety of concepts within Pentaho Reporting. With screenshots that show you how reports look at design time as well as how they should look when rendered as PDF, Excel, HTML, Text, Rich-Text-File, XML, and CSV, this book also contains complete example source code that you can copy and paste into your environment to get up-and-running quickly. Updated to cover the features of Pentaho 8, this book will teach you everything you need to know to build fast, efficient reports using Pentaho. If your interest lies in the technical details of creating reports and you want to see how to solve common reporting problems with a minimum of fuss, this is the book for you.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Summary


After the discovery of the basic and advanced features of Pentaho Report Designer, this chapter is the first one entirely dedicated to the technical and advanced features of Pentaho Reporting SDK.

In this chapter, you learnt everything about Pentaho Reporting's .prpt bundle file format, along with the details of Pentaho Reporting's Java API. You were introduced to the schemas of the various XML files that persist the data source, parameters, expressions, layout, and style of a report.

With examples of Pentaho's Java API, you learned how easy it is to build a report programmatically. You walked through a complete example that demonstrated creating different reporting bands, as well as different elements, within a report.

Now that you have read this chapter, you should feel comfortable with the .prpt format and all the technical details around developing a Pentaho Report using the Pentaho Reporting API. This is an advanced task for developers, creating complex Pentaho reports, embedded...