JasperReports
JasperReports is a
widely used open source business intelligence and reporting engine. It
is a reporting library. Its main purpose is to help create
page-oriented, ready-to-print documents in a simple and flexible
manner.
This software can be embedded into any Java
application to
generate print or web reporting. Further, JasperReports can be used to
create output for further processing in applications such as
OpenOffice.
Alternatively, reports can be easily imported into the
JasperServer interactive report server.
JasperReports is part of the Jaspersoft Business Intelligence
suite. The other
applications include: iReport,
JasperServer, JasperAnalysis, and JasperETL.
JaserReports is mature software, with development beginning in
2001.
Features include:
- Flexible report layout
- Flexible output options - PDF, HTML,
Excel, RTF, ODT, CSV and XML files. The engine
allows report definitions to include charts, with the rendering
provided by the JFreeChart library which
supports many chart layouts, such as Pie, Bar, Stacked Bar, Line, Area,
Scatter Plot, Bubble, and Time series
- Comprehensive charting
- Drill Down analysis
- Custom Calculation and Variables
- Unlimited report size
- Several graphical report desiners are available including
iReport
- Seamlessly Embeddable
- Fields
- Expressions
- Variables
- Report sections
- Report styles
- Frames
- Groups
- Scriptlets may accompany the report definition,
which the report definition can invoke at any point to perform
additional processing
- Multiple sources can be merged together
- Sub-reports
- Unicode support
- Support for macros added in XLS and XSLX exporters
- Internationalization
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