Jaspersoft StudioVisual Designer for JasperReports

Veaceslav Chicu–Jaspersoft Studio lead developer

What is Jaspersoft Studio

Visual Designer for JasperReportsPlugin for Eclipse IDE

Standalone version based on Eclipse RCP

Complete environment for reports design, execution, testing and deployment

Open Source

Focused on both developers and high level users

Designed to be easily extended by other plug-ins

Main used Eclipse components

Visual designer based on GEF

XML text editor

Outline view + tabbed properties

Preview reports in different format

Preferences per workspace and per project

Eclipse based builder to compile reports

Classpath management based on Eclipse project classloader

Datasource configuration

Internationalization

Cheat Sheets / Help , Wizards

Demonstration

Demo: Quick tour of Jaspersoft Studio

Configuring a JDBC connection

Create and run a new report

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Extending Jaspersoft Studio

JasperReports JasperReportsextensions

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extensions

Made to be extensible

Several extension points to support:

Custom data adapters

Custom mapping tools

Custom query designers

Custom JasperReports components

Custom repository view extensions

Data Adapters

What is a Data Adapter

A way to define a source forJasperReports using a configurationfile (to be used in example in theJasperReports web framework)

The basic structure to provide support for data sources in Jaspersoft Studio and other environments (i.e. JasperReports Web Framework)

How to implement a Data Adapter

Implement a DataAdapter, DataAdapterService and DataAdapterFactory

A DataAdapterService is a ParameterContributor

The factory can be registered as jasperreports extension

Implement a DataAdapterDescriptor and its factoryFactory Creates the descriptor and provides label and icon

Descriptor Provides visual editor to edit the DataAdapter

Contributed via dataAdapters extension points

Mapping tools and Query designers

What is a Mapping Tool

A way to help the user to identify and add to a report the fields provided by a data source

What is a Query designer

A special tool to design queries of a particular language (i.e. SQL, HSQL etc…)

Contributed via mappingTool and queryDesigner extension points

Custom components

What is a JasperReports custom components?

A way to provide support for complex custom elements based on the primitive elements of JasperReports(i.e. Table component, Barcodes, Map, etc…)

How can you support a custom component in Jaspersoft Studio?

Ability to plug designer extensions (palette, model, edit parts, figures, commands,…)

Contributed via components and palette extension point

Need more? Repository Extensions

What is the Repository view?

A place where to store and define resources and tools to interface with external world (i.e. data adapters, JasperReports Server connections, …)

Contributed via repositoryview extension point

Thank You

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