Presentation from Java2Days 2016 conference on topic Jasper reports in 3 easy steps

1. Jasper reports in 3 easy
steps
@ivaylo_zashev
Java2Days 2016

2. I will share my experience developing
jasper reports

3. Agenda
● Introduction to Jasper reports
● Common use cases
● Development tools
● Jasper reports integration with Java
○ 1 step - design
○ 2 step - deploy
○ 3 step - execute
● Other aproaches for using Jasper reports

4. What is report?
● meaningful
● well-defined
● targeted
● summarized
● presentation of information

5. Jasper reports
● Open source
● Cross-platform
● Most common
Use cases

6. Jasper reports outside
Title
Summary
Column
footer
Page
header
Column
header
Detail
Page footer

7. Jasper reports inside

8. Datasources
● Invoked during execution phase
● Datasource types:
○ JDBC
○ JavaBean
○ Map-based
○ TableModel
○ XML, CSV, XLS

9. Jasper report life cycle phases
● Design
● Compile
● Execution
● Export

10. Development tools
● iReport designer
○ in maintenance-only mode until December 31, 2015
○ run with pre Java 8 distributions
● Jaspersoft studio
○ official design client for JasperReports
● JasperReports server
○ processes compilation, execution and export

11. JasperReports server and Java
● Maven dependency (latest version 6.3.2-SNAPSHOT)
● Non public in Maven Central repository
○ Install manually
○ Import from jaspersoft artifactory repository

12. Demo

13. Other approaches
● Depending on compilation process
○ Jasper reports library
○ Apache ant
○ Maven plugin
● Depending on distrubutivity
○ On the cloud by bitnami

14. Info and resources
● blog - http://izashev.blogspot.bg/
● twitter - @ivaylo_zashev
● demo - https://github.com/IvayloZashev/jasper-demo
● survey - http://tinyurl.com/gw4fqhd
● everything on that topic