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Pentaho 8 Reporting for Java Developers

By : Jasmine Kaur, Francesco Corti
Book Image

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

Pentaho Report Designer nightly build


In the previous chapters, you learnt everything about Pentaho Reporting 8.0 in its stable release. Stable releases can be downloaded as described in Chapter 2, Getting Started with Report Designer, but being an open source project, Pentaho Reporting's source code is available on a public repository hosted on GitHub. For future reference, the Pentaho Reporting's project is stored at https://github.com/pentaho/pentaho-reporting.

In the public repository, you can find all the libraries, source code, and everything that is required to understand how Pentaho Reporting works and is developed. Looking at the repository, there are several branches, as usual. The master branch hosts the daily commits of the Pentaho team. Of course, the source code cannot be guaranteed to be stable, but it's definitely the most recent version of the software.

In this section, you are going to learn how to download the latest version of the source code and how to build it, creating...