Downloading JasperReports
JasperReports can be downloaded from http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports. When visiting the JasperReports download page, you should see an image similar to the following around the middle of the page:
JasperReports can be downloaded by clicking on this image. Once you click on the image, you should see a window similar to the following on your browser:
Clicking on the JasperReports 1.2.2 link at the top left cell should take you to a page containing a tree displaying current and previous versions of JasperReports.
Each node in the tree contains three download links. It is not always clear what exactly is downloaded by clicking on these links. For this reason, a brief explanation for each link is given next.
The first link is to download a JAR file containing a subset of the JasperReports functionality. Specifically, it contains classes that can be used to display jrprint files, which are reports in JasperReports' native format. This file is offered...