JasperAssistant 2.3.0

JasperAssistant is a visual report designer for JasperReports, a popular open-source reporting engine. JasperAssistant is built on top of the Eclipses plug-in architecture and its main goal is to help you create JasperReports report definition files through an intuitive graphical interface.
JasperAssistant opens for you the door to the best open-source reporting engine available - JasperReports. JasperReports offers you a free reporting library for your commercial and non-commercial Java projects with no deployment or any other fees.
JasperAssistant in its turn gives you a professional designer that is able to save you a great amount of development time. Combine the two, and you get an accessible reporting solution which easily matches many high-priced commercial counterparts.
Benefits:
- Design and layout your reports using an intuitive visual interface and avoid the need for XML editing of JasperReports templates.
- Take advantage of Eclipse IDE integration and effectively combine Java and JasperReports development.
- Efficiently locate and correct report problems using precise error indications.
- Preview your reports instantly using live data from a JDBC database connection, an XML document, JavaBeans array or a custom data source.
- Export and preview your reports in PDF, Excel, HTML, CSV and XML formats.
Main features:
- "What you see is what you get" visual report designer.
- Complete integration with Eclipse IDE environment.
- Support for all the features of JasperReports up to version 1.2.1
- An integrated report compiler.
- Report preview support
- Report Export wizard
- Support for compiled report files (*.jasper)
- Drag-and-drop interface.
- Unlimited Undo/Redo support.
- Cut/Copy/Paste support.
- Properties View.
- Outline View.
- Problems/Tasks View.
- Intuitive Context Menus.
- A dedicated toolbar for text objects.
- Zoom support.
- A customizable palette.
- A comprehensive set of align and resize actions.
- Intuitive Expression Editor.
- Integrated user documentation.
- Field Wizard.
- Grid and Snap To Grid support.
- Rulers, Guides and Snap to Guides support.
- Extensible shortcuts support.
- Full support for JasperReports data sources.
Enhancements:
- This version adds support for JasperReports 1.3.0; notably a new break element is now available.
- JasperAssistant can now be used with Eclipse 3.3 which also allows it, from now on, to work properly on the Mac OS X platform.