Book Description
If you’re a Java developer who wants to make the most of the world’s most popular open source reporting engine, this book is all you need: a step-by-step course in creating super-attractive, user-friendly business reports.
Create, size, and position the titles, headers, footers, and body of your report using JasperReports and iReport
Enhance the look and feel of your report using background images, watermarks, and other such features
Create multi-page and multi-column reports using multiple types of data in the same report
Generate reports from Java Swing applications or from your web application
Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible
In Detail
JasperReports is the world's most popular embeddable Java open source reporting library, providing Java developers with the power to easily create rich print and web reports. While such reports are pivotal in managing business information more effectively, creating and customizing them can get tedious.
This book will give you recipes to solve common JasperReports problems to make your life easier. It will take you through complex examples related to JasperReports with step-by-step instructions on how to solve them.
The author's experience in creating reports enables him to share over 50 recipes to develop crystal-clear business reports using the capabilities of JasperReports and the amazing features provided by its visual report designer tool: iReport.
This cookbook will arm you to develop user-friendly reports by using multiple types of data in the same report, thereby saving your time in sorting, arranging, or extracting data and making the whole process effortless. First you will learn to do basic things such as creating, sizing, positioning, and enhancing the titles, headers, footers of the report. You will move on to working with the body and footer of the report, including using parameters to filter records during report processing and implementing nested hierarchy. Second, you will learn to enhance the look and feel of your report by deploying and reusing styles, and by using designs, textual effects, background images, and watermarks. You will also learn to use mathematical and logical expressions such as counting the number of records with a particular field value, grouping records, applying styles on your data based on logical or mathematical conditions, and so on.
Then you will be able to do advanced things such as working with a variety of data sources: relational data, XML data, model beans of Java applications, and also multiple relational databases at once. You will learn to build a cover page and table of contents for multi-page reports, display multi-dimensional page numbering, and much more. You will be able to design simple and multi-level summary reports, cross-tabs with dynamic rows and columns, create bar charts, and display data trend graphs in your reports. Lastly and very importantly, you will be able to generate reports from Java Swing applications after you learn how to use JavaWrappers for your JasperReport.
Create and enhance your business reports using the various functionalities of JasperReports and iReport
Table of Contents
- JasperReports 3.6 Development Cookbook
- JasperReports 3.6 Development Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- Preface
- 1. Creating Static and Dynamic Titles and Headers
- Introduction
- Downloading, installing, and running JasperReports and iReport
- Creating your first "Hello World" report
- Creating and sizing the title for your report
- Using dynamic titles that can change during report processing
- Inserting a company logo in the title of your report
- Adding a simple header to your report
- Setting margins for your report and aligning the report header relative to report margins
- 2. Working with the Body and Footer of your Report
- Introduction
- Displaying a field along with its label in the body of your report and handling null values
- Creating a simple table of records along with labels for each column
- Inserting a heading for a group of records
- Using parameters to filter records during report processing
- Implementing groups within groups — a nested hierarchy
- Adding a simple footer to your report
- Displaying general information or summary at the end of your report
- 3. Enhancing the Look and Feel of your Report
- 4. Working with a Variety of Data Sources
- 5. Multi-page Reports
- Introduction
- Building a cover page for your multi-page report
- Creating a simple, one-page TOC for your report
- Applying a style to your simple TOC
- Resetting page numbering with the start of a particular record
- Implementing complex multi-dimensional page numbering
- Showing multiple types of data in the same report
- Managing pagination of multiple types of data in a report
- 6. Multi-column Reports
- 7. Summary Report, Crosstabs, and Graphs
- 8. Java Wrappers for your JasperReports