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<h2 id="features">Features</h2> <p>JasperReports is an open source reporting library that can be embedded into any Java application. Features include: </p> <ul><li>Scriptlets may accompany the report definition,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> which the report definition can invoke at any point to perform additional processing. The scriptlet is built using Java, and has many hooks that can be invoked before or after stages of the report generation, such as Report, Page, Column or Group.</li> <li>Sub-reports<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li></ul> <p>For users with more sophisticated report management requirements, reports designed for JasperReports can be easily imported into the <i>JasperServer</i>—the interactive report server. </p> <h2 id="jaspersoft">Jaspersoft</h2> <p>Teodor Danciu began work on JasperReports in June 2001; the <a href="/facts/Sf.net/lxYAgUAX">SourceForge</a> project was registered in September 2001<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> and JasperReports 0.1.5 was released on November 3, 2001.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p><p>Jaspersoft was founded as Panscopic by Al Campa, CEO, and Raj Bhargava, VP of Products in 2001. Panscopic raised $23M from Doll Capital, Discovery Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures, and Partech. In 2004, Panscopic teamed up with Teodor Danciu,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> acquired the intellectual property of JasperReports, and changed the name of the company to Jaspersoft. Brian Gentile became CEO in 2007. </p><p>JasperReports Version 1.0 was released on July 21, 2005.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> The code was originally licensed under a <a href="/facts/Copyleft/DHjTyl7C">copyleft</a> <i>JasperReports License</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> and later moved to <a href="/facts/LGPL/AXwkz9x3">GNU Lesser General Public License</a>. </p><p>Jaspersoft's main related product is JasperReports Server, a Java EE <a href="/facts/Web_application/BLkF3BIN">web application</a> that provides advanced report server capabilities such as report scheduling and permissions. It is available under an open source license for use in conjunction with open source infrastructure such as <a href="/facts/MySQL/QEEDNBDP">MySQL</a> and <a href="/facts/JBoss/sdwoM5jn">JBoss</a>, or a commercial license for enterprise deployments involving commercial databases and application servers. </p><p>Jaspersoft provides commercial software around the JasperReports product, and negotiate contracts with software developers that wish to embed the JasperReports engine into a closed source product. Jaspersoft is a gold partner with MySQL,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> and JasperReports was included in the <a href="/facts/PostgreSQL/LHdXuHfl">PostgreSQL</a> distribution <i>Bizgres</i> version 0.7.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> </p><p>In 2007, <a href="/facts/Actian/JHEPRSJC">Ingres Corporation</a> partnered with Jaspersoft and rPath start-up to release a Business Intelligence software based appliance called Icebreaker BI.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> It consisted of the Ingres 2006 database with <a href="https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=rpath">rPath Linux</a> and business intelligence tools from JasperSoft.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> Although the Icebreaker BI Appliance package included no hardware, Ingres called it an appliance because all the components of the software stack were tightly integrated and the company supported all the software itself.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> </p><p>On April 28, 2014, <a href="/facts/TIBCO/BHPUaPAl">TIBCO</a> announced its acquisition of Jaspersoft.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="jrxml">JRXML</h2> <p>JasperReports reports are defined in an XML file format, called JRXML,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> which can be hand-coded, generated, or designed using a tool. The file format is defined by a <a href="/facts/Document_Type_Definition/JsvY9PyQ">document type definition</a> or <a href="/facts/XML_schema/uWam66Rj">XML schema</a> for newer versions, providing limited interoperability.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> JRXML files have the filename extension .jrxml. </p><p>A .jasper file is a compiled version of a .jrxml file.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> iReport does the compilation on the fly, but the compilation can also get achieved at runtime using the JasperCompileManager class. </p> <h2 id="ide-integration">IDE integration</h2> <p>Several Java <a href="/facts/Integrated_Development_Environment/jbEINSQf">integrated development environments</a>, such as <a href="/facts/NetBeans/9kqvIVFG">NetBeans</a>, <a href="/facts/Eclipse_(software)/YoqHVjas">Eclipse</a> and IBM Websphere Studio Application Developer<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> provide instructions for users wishing to integrate JasperReports into a project.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Crystal_Reports/lX1FaxsL">Crystal Reports</a></li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>Eubanks, Brian D. (November 15, 2005). "Chapter 6. Graphics and Data Visualisation". <a href="https://archive.org/details/wickedcooljavaco00euba"><i>Wicked Cool Java: code bits, open-source libraries, and project ideas</i></a>. No Starch Press. pp. <a href="https://archive.org/details/wickedcooljavaco00euba/page/n162">144</a>–146. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-59327-061-2.</li> <li>Germain, Jack M. (2007-07-26). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120318101001/http://www.technewsworld.com/story/58471.html">"So You Want to Be a Linux Developer, Part 1"</a>. <i>TechNewsWorld</i>. Archived from <a href="http://www.technewsworld.com/story/58471.html">the original</a> on 2012-03-18. Retrieved 2007-07-30.</li></ul> <h3>Code refactoring</h3> <p>JasperReports has been the focus of several academic papers on code refactoring. </p> <ul><li>Vasa, Rajesh; Schneider, Jean-Guy (2003). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080722081613/http://www.it.swin.edu.au/personal/jschneider/Pub/qaoose03.pdf">"Evolution of Cyclomatic Complexity in Object Oriented Software"</a> (PDF). <i>7th Workshop on the Quantitative Approaches in Object-oriented Software Engineering (QAOOSE'2003)</i>. Archived from <a href="http://www.it.swin.edu.au/personal/jschneider/Pub/qaoose03.pdf">the original</a> (PDF) on 2008-07-22. Retrieved 2007-07-14.</li> <li>Advani, Deepak; Hassoun, Youssef; Counsell, Steve (January 2005). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110928165532/http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/research/techreps/2005/bbkcs-05-01.pdf">"Heurac: A heuristic-based tool for extracting refactoring data from open-source software versions"</a> (PDF). Archived from <a href="http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/research/techreps/2005/bbkcs-05-01.pdf">the original</a> (PDF) on September 28, 2011. Retrieved 2007-01-11.</li> <li>Murphy-Hill, Emerson (2005). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070114023610/http://amstel.cs.pdx.edu/Members/emerson/rpe.pdf">"Improving Refactoring with Alternate Program Views"</a> (PDF). Archived from <a href="http://amstel.cs.pdx.edu/Members/emerson/rpe.pdf">the original</a> (PDF) on 2007-01-14. Retrieved 2007-01-11.</li> <li>Vasa, R.; Schneider, J.; Woodward, C.; Cain, A. (17–18 November 2005). "Detecting structural changes in object oriented software systems". <a href="https://figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Detecting_structural_changes_in_object_oriented_software_systems/26250122"><i>2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, 2005</i></a>. p. 463. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109%2FISESE.2005.1541855">10.1109/ISESE.2005.1541855</a>. <a href="/facts/Hdl_(identifier)/rdebSxmC">hdl</a>:<a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1959.3%2F2528">1959.3/2528</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-7803-9507-7. <a href="/facts/S2CID_(identifier)/ldJsHa2Y">S2CID</a> <a href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:16524509">16524509</a>.</li> <li>Advani, Deepak; Hassoun, Youssef; Counsell, Steve (2006). "Extracting refactoring trends from open-source software and a possible solution to the 'related refactoring' conundrum". <i>Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing - SAC '06</i>. p. 1713. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F1141277.1141685">10.1145/1141277.1141685</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-59593-108-5. <a href="/facts/S2CID_(identifier)/ldJsHa2Y">S2CID</a> <a href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:16201370">16201370</a>.</li> <li>Counsell, S.; Hassoun, Y.; Loizou, G.; Najjar, R. (2006). "Common refactorings, a dependency graph and some code smells". <i>Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE international symposium on International symposium on empirical software engineering - ISESE '06</i>. p. 288. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F1159733.1159777">10.1145/1159733.1159777</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-59593-218-1. <a href="/facts/S2CID_(identifier)/ldJsHa2Y">S2CID</a> <a href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:15086147">15086147</a>.</li> <li>Siddiqui, Bilal (2010). <i>JasperReports 3.6 Development Cookbook</i>. Packt Publishing Ltd. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-84951-076-9.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://community.jaspersoft.com/project/jasperreports-library">Official website</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Siddiqui 2010, Chapter §1 - Introduction - Creating your first "Hello World" report. - Siddiqui, Bilal (2010). JasperReports 3.6 Development Cookbook. Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84951-076-9. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Siddiqui 2010, Chapter §1 - Introduction - Creating your first "Hello World" report. - Siddiqui, Bilal (2010). JasperReports 3.6 Development Cookbook. Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84951-076-9. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Swenson, Erik (September 20, 2002). "Reports made easy with JasperReports". Open Source Java Tutorials. JavaWorld. 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