Jaspersoft Studio Review. Jasper. Reports is the most popular and widely deployed open source reporting project in the world. It has been deployed in hundreds of thousands of production projects, and its reporting capabilities are built into thousands of software products. As such, Jaspersoft Studio JSS is a solid, full featured tool, capable of creating and running the gamut of traditional real world report designs, from simple to complex layouts. However, we feel that JSS is less usable than both the BIRT Designer and the Pentaho Report Designer. We find that many simple, common operations such as creating aggregates are more difficult in JSS than the other open source design tools. Our fundamental issue with Jasper. Reports has always been that Jasper seems to have taken paper reports as its starting point and worked to replicate them on the web. KZyWswR9g/ULiOKoskNuI/AAAAAAAAAUk/2XRDxTMKpUI/s1600/birt_26.png' alt='Eclipse Birt Runtime Installer' title='Eclipse Birt Runtime Installer' />This complaint while mitigated in JSS, is still present. For instance, a common complaint with Jasper was the lack of a Table of Contents mechanism TOC. JSS has addressed this through the Jasper book concept which uses Jaspers sub report concept to build reports with a TOC. While this works, the workflow is relatively complex and requires a fair amount of effort to link the TOC to the hand built bookmarks in the other sub reports. While effective, this approach is significantly more difficult than building a TOC in BIRT or Pentaho. Despite this fundamental issue, we feel that JSS is a significant step forward addressing many of the issues that we found with i. Report. All indications are that Jaspersoft will continue the progress towards a better report design tool with JSS. Jaspersoft Studio JSSJSS is a WYSIWIG tool based on the Eclipse 3. Jasper Reports Library. These reports can then be run by the Jasper Report Engine or the Jasper. Reports Server. JSS is available as both a stand alone application or as an Eclipse update, available on the Eclipse Marketplace. Jaspersoft has done a nice job integrating JSS into the Eclipse framework, providing an interface that retains many of i. Reports best features, while leveraging the now ubiquitous Eclipse UI experience. More importantly, JSS has added a number of well designed dialogs Eclipse views that allow a report developer to fine tune the properties of the controls within a report. Like BIRT, Jaspersofts dialogs help guide report developers to the properties that they want to control. This is a significant improvement over Pentaho which lumps all of the properties for a control into a single grid structure. Figure 2 Screenshot of the Jaspersoft Studio Interface. It has the typical designer components the report design with a preview tab, and panels for the report outlinestructure, the report element palette, and the improved property editor. JSS has much of the same functionality as the other report designers, as demonstrated by our Product Comparison Matrix. However, JSS is different from the other report designers in a few major ways Jasper. Planet Eclipse is a window into the world, work and lives of Eclipse hackers and contributors. Generate, create linear, 2d barcode images in Eclipse BIRT reports and BIRT Report Runtime. BIRT Barcode generate, create linear 2D barcodes in BIRT reports without. Workbench User Guide Eclipse platform overview Getting started Basic tutorial The Workbench Editors and views Editors Views. Eclipse Birt. This tutorial describes how to use Eclipse BIRT for reporting on simple Java Objects POJOs. The tutorial explains also how to deploy the resulting. Generate Create Linear, 2D BarCodes in ASP. NET Web Applications. Easy to Install and simple to integrate into your ASP. NET web applications Drag and drop barcode. Report Designer Full Eclipse Install for Linux. This Download includes the BIRT Reporting Framework, Eclipse SDK, GEF and EMF and Axis downloads. Eclipse is probably best known as a Java IDE, but it is more it is an IDE framework, a tools framework, an open source project, a community, an ecosystem, and a. Reports uses pixel positioning as its central approach, and at its core it emphasizes paginated reports, as opposed to web layouts. This is similar to Pentaho, but different than BIRT which uses a table based approach. Obras De Confucio Pdf on this page. The limitations of the pixel positioning approach have been mitigate by the introduction of a Table element within JSS. Jasper. Reports rely on sub reports to support reports with multiple queries and data sources. This is different than BIRT, but the same as Pentaho. Charting is middle of the road in JSS more full featured and easier to use than Pentaho, and more difficult and less full featured than BIRT. EclipseBRT/Images/birt_view_conf.png' alt='Eclipse Birt Runtime Install' title='Eclipse Birt Runtime Install' />Jasper. Reports must be compiled, which is different from both BIRT and Pentaho. The JSS report designer is a solid tool that has seen steady refinement since its introduction in 2. However, it can be difficult to use and the learning curve is steep. Much of this is due to Jaspers underlying approaches to report design. Jasper, like Pentaho, is in the pixel positioning school of report design, where the report designer must explicitly place each control and field on the page and format them individually. This means drawing your own tables, handling borders and formatting for each cell individually instead of for the table as a whole. This makes things especially tedious if you want to add, delete, or reorder columns. Pixel positioning is very different than the BIRTs approach, which is table and grid oriented, much like how web pages and spreadsheets are usually developed. So with BIRT, there is a table element in the palette that makes it easier to create and format tables as a whole, and adding, deleting, or reordering columns is a snap. Jaspers emphasis on pagination and pixel positioning gives report developers fine grained control over the look report, but also limits the reports ability to adapt to different sized displays. So, for example, if you want a report to look good when printed on an 8. Also, like Pentaho, Jasper is very dependent on sub reports. LnLyVtDM/ULic_UvJ3QI/AAAAAAAAAU0/dU0wKeEx5bc/s1600/birt_84.png' alt='Eclipse Birt Runtime Installation' title='Eclipse Birt Runtime Installation' />If you want to use multiple data sources, use a querys result set more than once in a report, or have side by side report components, you need to use sub reports. While sub reports are great for re using report pieces across many different reports, requiring sub reports for the above use cases adds unnecessary difficulty and complexity to the report design process You need to gracefully hand parameters and sometimes query data between the master report and sub report and sub sub report, etc. From within the JSS, you cannot actually see how the sub report will show up in the master report instead a sub report icon is displayed. Report developers need to manually manage the dependency between the master report and sub report files. Too many sub reports can result in very poor performance because each sub report opens its own database connection, thread, and queries. So, for example, if you have a sub report within a group section that expands into 7. Unlike BIRT and Pentaho, Jasper requires that you compile reports prior to running them. This means that report developers must have the entire Java SDK installed. Compilation also adds an extra step to the process of deploying reports. Since the compiled Jasper report executables are Java byte code, revision control is difficult since it is impossible to identify the differences between versions of a binary file. Jasper. Soft excels at the way it can use Java objects POJOs as a source of data. While both BIRT and Pentaho have this functionality, Jasper seems to have the best interface that really encourages this type of data acquisition. This is particularly for cases where you have an application that has a Java data abstraction layer. Rather than query the underlying database, and having to recreate any business logic in the data abstraction layer, your app can simply pass the data to the Jasper. Reports runtime. On the other hand we are not big fans of the JSS SQL query editor. While the editor has had significant improvements since we last reviewed the product, it was still more difficult to use then either BIRT or Pentahos query editors. Part of the issue seems to be that the JSS query editor has three interchangeable modes Text, Outline and Diagram which all have their own modes of operation. We found it to be a bit clunky, although at the end of the day it is functional. Reporting with Eclipse BIRT and Java Objects POJOsSwitch back to the Palette, select a chart and drag and drop it on your report. Choose the Line Chart with the standard settings. Press Next and select your data set. At the next step we have to assign the columns to the axis. We assign the date to the x axis and the open value to the y axis via drag and drop. Define 5 series in total. Assign the columns to these series by dragging the column to the Sum sign. Currently the x axis shows first the newest date. Reverse the x axis by you have to sort the data ascending. Press the highlighted button. Go to the next tab and give titles to your columns. Hide the last one. The display of the dates use a long format, we would like to. Perform the following and choose short as date type of. Change the display of the lines via the following. Press finish to include your chart into your report.