jasper-reports Getting started with jasper-reports Work flow

Example

The work flow in jasper-reports is:

1. Design the report, create the jrxml file that defines the report layout. The jrxml can be create by using a simple texteditor but normally an IDE (JasperSoft Studio or iReport) is used both to speed up report development but also to have a visual view of layout.

2. Compile the report (the jrxml) to get a .jasper file or a JasperReport object. This process can be compared with a .java file being compiled to .class.

3. Fill the report, pass parameters and a datasource to the report to generate the print object JasperPrint that can also be saved to a .jprint file

4. View, print and/or export the JasperPrint. The most commons export format are supported as pdf, excel, word, html, cvs etc.