More than 50 recipes for creating a generation of reports using JasperReports JasperReports 3.6.0 Overview of Development Cookbook Create, size, and position title, header, footer, and body of your reports using JasperReports and iReport Improve the look and feel of your reports using background images, watermarks, and other features such as multi-definition and multiple reports -column using several types of data in the same report Generate reports from Java Swing application or from your web application Part of a series of Packt's Cookbook: recipe Each carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible. In Detail JasperReports is the world's most popular embeddable Java reporting library open, providing Java developers with the power to easily create rich print and web reports. Author's experience in making the report enabled him to share more than 50 recipes for crystal-clear to develop business reports using JasperReports capability and exceptional features provided by a visual report designer tool: iReport. This cookbook will equip you to develop user-friendly report by using several types of data in the same report, thereby saving you time in sorting, arranging, or extracting the data and makes the whole process easier. Then you will be able to do sophisticated things such as working with various sources of data: relational data, XML data, a Java bean model, and relational databases as well. You will be able to design a simple summary reports and multi-level, cross-tabs with dynamic rows and columns, create bar charts, and graphs showing trends of data in your report. Create and enhance your business reports using JasperReports and iReport a variety of functions What you will learn from this book Create, position, and increase the title, header, footer, and body of your report Use dynamic titles - those that can change during the process of reporting use of mathematical and logical expressions to calculate the total, average, maximum, and to sort, organize, and extract the data making it easier for you to analyze, share and manage business information more effectively Generating reports from various data sources such as relational data, XML data, or a Java bean model Create multiple page report, with cover page and table of contents (TOC) and manage pagination multiple types of data use sub-reports to design a multi-column reports summary report design simple or multi-level, and cross-tab Create bar charts and graphs to show trends Generate report data from a Java application Swing or Web applications Approach The entire contents of the book is a comprehensive collection of recipes meant to tutor you on how to create and enhance reports. Who is this book written for This book is for Java developers who want to use JasperReports to create business reports in a user-friendly. Although the primary audience of this cookbook is a report designer, but the Java and XML developers will find this book useful in understanding how the Jasper XML code works and how to wrap the functionality of JasperReports in your Java Swing or Web applications.