JasperReports 3.5 for Java Developers

JasperReports class library

For all JasperReports-related tasks, we need to add the JasperReports library to our CLASSPATH. The JasperReports library can be found under the dist directory in the project file; it is named jasperreports-3.5.2.jar. Depending on the version of JasperReports, the filename will vary.

Required libraries for report compilation

The project file described earlier contains all of the required supporting libraries. Once that file is downloaded, all the required libraries can be found under the lib subdirectory of the directory created when extracting the ZIP file. JasperReports uses these required files for XML parsing. Therefore, they are needed when compiling JRXML files programmatically, not for filling or displaying reports. ...