April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
202 pages
4h 48m
English
JasperReports is an open-source reporting engine to produce reports that can be rendered in a variety of formats, such as HTML, PDF, Microsoft Excel, ODT (OpenOffice), and others. Typically, reports are designed in a visual editor (iReport Designer) or XML files (JRXML). The design is compiled into a Jasper file (*.jasper), filled with data, and exported to the desired format.
DynamicJasper and DynamicReports are two open-source libraries that abstract away the JRXML format and provide APIs to design reports in Java. This is a good match for the philosophy of the Vaadin Framework which allows you to implement HTML-based web applications in Java. In this chapter, we'll use DynamicJasper, but the concepts ...
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