This chapter is the first one entirely dedicated to the technical and advanced features of Pentaho Reporting. In the previous chapters of the book, you learnt everything about Pentaho Report Designer, and starting from here, you start to face the development using the Pentaho Reporting SDK.
In this chapter, you will learn about Pentaho Reporting's .prpt bundle file format, along with the details of Pentaho Reporting's Java API. You will be 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 will learn how easy it is to build a report programmatically. You will walk through a complete example that demonstrates how to create different reporting bands, as well as different elements, within a...
