After the definition of the first Pentaho report, you will probably want to understand more about saving it somewhere for future use. Before seeing it in action in our exercise, let's introduce all the possible ways. Pentaho Reporting has two different places where you can ask to store reports: the filesystem and the so called Pentaho repository.

Saving (and loading) a report into (and from) the filesystem is not very different from saving (and loading) a regular file. A different solution is the Pentaho repository. The Pentaho repository is managed by the Pentaho Analytics platform directly and is mainly a collaborative space where developers and users can read, write, update, and delete content, in a manner similar to content repository. The Pentaho Analytics platform implements its repository using Apache Jackrabbit (http://jackrabbit.apache.org), a fully conforming implementation of the content repository for Java technology API (JCR, specified in JSR 170...