Making Printed and Online Reports Look Great With JasperReports

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Developers proud of their open source applications are often troubled by the look of the reports that their end-users receive. For years open source developers got by with ASCII and HTML. Today, users expect presentable, colorful charts, graphs, and concise tables of information.

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JasperReports is the world's most widely reporting library. It's
fully open sourced under the LGPL and makes writing great reports
extremely easy. In this standard, 30-minute presentation, Simon Raik-Allen, a software architect working on this project, will explain how JasperReports can be embedded into any host application, giving the application advanced reporting capability. With more than one million downloads, JasperReports has evolved into a high-performance reporting engine with extensive internationalization and localization capabilities.

Reports can be created in PDF, XML, HTML, CSV, XLS, RTF and TXT. Users often never know that a separate reporting engine is even being used. They just see that the application suddenly has advanced reporting capability. Find out the frustrations Simon felt with proprietary software that led to the creation of JasperReports
and how he works with a team of businesspeople on the creation
of JasperSoft, an enterprise software company that develops open
source reporting and business intelligence products.

Stream: Java

Paper: Making Printed and Online Reports Look Great With JasperReports

SSimon Raik-Allen is a Senior Engineer at IndustryNext Corporation. Simon has broad experience with Internet technologies and over the last 12 years has worked in online trading exchanges, instant messaging, e-commerce, and intranets. Before IndustryNext Simon spent 5 years at JasperSoft corporation working in the Open Source industry. JasperSoft makes Business Intelligence and reporting software for Fortune 500 companies. Simon has always worked in innovative companies and enjoys being at the leading edge of technology. Simon has also published several articles in the areas of Genentic Programming and Artificial Intelligence.