Install Jaspersoft Studio

Overview

We will download the appropriate version of Jaspersoft Studio Community Edition based on our operating system.

Once we click on download, it ask for login/registration just for activation purpose.

Q: What is JasperReports?
Ans:

JasperReports is a Java reporting tool that can output to a wide range of destinations, including the screen, a printer, PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, RTF, ODT, comma-separated values, and XML files. It can be used to generate dynamic content in Java-enabled applications, such as Java EE or web applications.

How to create a Jasper report?

We can install Jaspersoft Studio Community Edition IDE and create the report by navigating to File Menu -> New -> click Jasper Report.

Once we download the Jasper Studio Community Edition, run the Jaspersoft Studio.exe.

Create Jasper Report

Create the report by navigating to File Menu -> New -> click Jasper Report.

Jasper Default Templates

Jasper provides several default templates to start with our reporting.

Jasper Sample Database

Once we select new report and template, Jasper Studio provide an option to go with default testing sample data or without it.

Preview Jasper Report

After creating new report, we can preview the report with different formats like PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, RTF, ODT etc. Also we can copy the generated report FileName.jrxml to our Java project/ Spring Boot Application and use this to generate the report.