Generating the report

In JasperReports lingo, the process of generating a report from a report template or jasper file is known as filling the report. Reports are filled programmatically by calling the fillReportToFile() method in the net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager class. The fillReportToFile() method fills a report and saves it to disk.

There are six overloaded versions of the fillReportToFile() method, which are listed below:

  1. JasperFillManager.fillReportToFile( JasperReport jasperReport, String destFileName, Map parameters, Connection connection )
  2. JasperFillManager.fillReportToFile( JasperReport jasperReport, String destFileName, Map parameters, JRDataSource dataSource )
  3. JasperFillManager.fillReportToFile( String sourceFileName ...

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