Jasper Reports Review

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Review of Jasper Reports powered by the Slant community.

Reports can be created with Jaspersoft Studio which is availabe in a Community and Professional edition.

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PlatformsWindows, Linux, Mac, Android

TechnologyJava

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Pros

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Has many more output formats than Nextreports

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Easy to learn

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Eclipse-based report designer is fairly easy to use

Jasperstudio report designer is easy enough to grok. It is full of features for designing your reports in a wysiwyg manner.

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Can be run as a service (server version) that allows deep links to individual reports or embedded with your web app as a library

You may or may not want a server version with its own learning curve and API. With Jasper you have the option of server vs library. With either one you can whip up reports and make them available in PDF, XML, HTML, CSV, XLS, RTF or TXT format. It's not very difficult to do that with JasperReports. And there are many examples out there to learn from.