Free jasperreports tutorial software for linux

JasperReports is a powerful open source Java reporting tool that has the ability to deliver rich content onto the screen, to the printer or into PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV and XML files.
It is entirely written in Java and can be used in a variety of Java enabled applications, including J2EE or Web applications, to generate dynamic content.
JasperReports is main purpose is to help creating page oriented, ready to print documents in a simple and flexible manner.
Main features:
- Report Design
- Header Sections
- Footer Sections
- Columns
- Groups
- Calculations
- Text format
- Images
Enhancements:
- This version introduces support for external style templates, a new report section for better control over empty reports, an enhanced XLS exporter, and various bugfixes and improvements.

Sub::Exporter::Tutorial is a friendly guide to exporting with Sub::Exporter.

Whats an Exporter?

When you use a module, first it is required, then its import method is called. The Perl documentation tells us that the following two lines are equivalent:

use Module LIST;

BEGIN { require Module; Module->import(LIST); }

The import method is the modules exporter.

The Basics of Sub::Exporter

Sub::Exporter builds a custom exporter which can then be installed into your module. It builds this method based on configuration passed to its setup_exporter method.

A very basic use case might look like this:

package Addition;
use Sub::Exporter;
Sub::Exporter::setup_exporter({ exports => [ qw(plus) ]});

sub plus { my ($x, $y) = @_; return $x + $y; }

This would mean that when someone used your Addition module, they could have its plus routine imported into their package:

use Addition qw(plus);

my $z = plus(2, 2); # this works, because now plus is in the main package

That syntax to set up the exporter, above, is a little verbose, so for the simple case of just naming some exports, you can write this:

use Sub::Exporter -setup => { exports => [ qw(plus) ] };
...which is the same as the original example -- except that now the exporter is built and installed at compile time. Well, that and you typed less.

Using Export Groups

You can specify whole groups of things that should be exportable together. These are called groups. Exporter calls these tags. To specify groups, you just pass a groups key in your exporter configuration:

package Food;
use Sub::Exporter -setup => {
exports => [ qw(apple banana beef fluff lox rabbit) ],
groups => {
fauna => [ qw(beef lox rabbit) ],
flora => [ qw(apple banana) ],
}
};

Now, to import all that delicious foreign meat, your consumer needs only to write:

use Food qw(:fauna);
use Food qw(-fauna);

Either one of the above is acceptable. A colon is more traditional, but barewords with a leading colon cant be enquoted by a fat arrow. Well see why that matters later on.

Groups can contain other groups. If you include a group name (with the leading dash or colon) in a group definition, it will be expanded recursively when the exporter is called. The exporter will not recurse into the same group twice while expanding groups.

There are two special groups: all and default. The all group is defined by default, and contains all exportable subs. You can redefine it, if you want to export only a subset when all exports are requested. The default group is the set of routines to export when nothing specific is requested. By default, there is no default group.

Imager::Tutorial is an introduction to Imager.

Before you start

If you have the necessary knowledge, install the image format libraries you want Imager image file support for, and Imager itself, otherwise arrange to have it done.
You will also want some sort of image viewer tool, whether an image editor like Photoshop or the GIMP, or a web browser.

Hello Boxes! - A Simple Start

As with any perl program its useful to start with a #! line, and to enable strict mode:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# you might to use warnings; instead of the -w above
use strict;

These lines will be omitted in further examples.

As with any module, you need to load it:

use Imager;

Now create a image to draw on:

my $image = Imager->new(xsize => 100, ysize => 100);

and draw a couple of filled rectangles on it:

$image->box(xmin => 0, ymin => 0, xmax => 99, ymax => 99,
filled => 1, color => blue);
$image->box(xmin => 20, ymin => 20, xmax => 79, ymax => 79,
filled => 1, color => green);

Since the first box fills the whole image, it can be simplified to:

$image->box(filled => 1, color => blue);

and save it to a file:

$image->write(file=>tutorial1.ppm)
or die Cannot save tutorial1.ppm: , $image->errstr;

So our completed program is:

use Imager;

my $image = Imager->new(xsize => 100, ysize => 100);

$image->box(filled => 1, color => blue);
$image->box(xmin => 20, ymin => 20, xmax => 79, ymax => 79,
filled => 1, color => green);

$image->write(file=>tutorial1.ppm)
or die Cannot save tutorial1.ppm: , $image->errstr;

Array::Each::Tutorial - POD giving various examples how to use Array::Each.

SYNOPSIS

man Array::Each
man Array::Each::Tutorial

or

perldoc Array::Each
perldoc Array::Each::Tutorial

Overview

This tutorial contains only POD, so dont do this:

use Array::Each::Tutorial; # dont do this

Rather, simply read the POD (as you are doing). But first, please read the docs for Array::Each, because the whole scoop is there.

This tutorial is intended to augment those docs with examples showing situations where you might want to use Array::Each instead of other techniques.

EXAMPLES

Parallel Arrays vs. Using a Hash

First of all, use a hash. Its almost always the best solution if you want to associate a "key" with a "value". And there are modules available that will let you do wonderful things with hashes, like keeping the keys sorted or keeping them in the order they were added.

So given a hash, you might at some point want to do this:

my %h = ( a=>1, b=>2, c=>3, d=>4, e=>5 );
while( my( $k, $v ) = each %h ) {
# ... do something with $k and $v ...
}

On the other hand, if parallel arrays better implement your algorithm, then you may find you want to do something like this:

my @k = qw( a b c d e );
my @v = qw( 1 2 3 4 5 );
for my $i ( 0 .. $#k ) {
my( $k, $v ) = ( $k[$i], $v[$i] );
# ... do something with $k and $v (and maybe $i) ...
}

Using Array::Each, you could do the same thing this way:

use Array::Each;
my @k = qw( a b c d e );
my @v = qw( 1 2 3 4 5 );
my $obj = Array::Each->new( @k, @v );
while( my( $k, $v, $i ) = $obj->each ) {
# ... do something with $k and $v (and maybe $i) ...
}

If you dont need $i at all, you can leave it out, e.g.,

while( my( $k, $v ) = $obj->each ) {
# ... do something with $k and $v ...
}

If you have more than two parallel arrays, include them all in the call to new() and add as many "capture" variables as you need, e.g.,

my @k = qw( a b c d e );
my @v = qw( 1 2 3 4 5 );
my @p = qw( - + ~ = : );
my $obj = Array::Each->new( @k, @v, @p );
while( my( $k, $v, $p, $i ) = $obj->each ) {
# ... do something with $k, $v, and $p (and maybe $i) ...
}

PAR::Tutorial is a cross-platform Packaging and Deployment with PAR.

SYNOPSIS

This is a tutorial on PAR, first appeared at the 7th Perl Conference. The HTML version of this tutorial is available online as http://aut.dyndns.org/par-tutorial/.

On Deploying Perl Applications

% sshnuke.pl 10.2.2.2 -rootpw="Z1ON0101"
Perl v5.6.1 required--this is only v5.6.0, stopped at sshnuke.pl line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at sshnuke.pl line 1.

Q: "Help! I cant run your program!"
A1: Install Perl & perl -MCPAN -einstall(...)
How do we know which modules are needed?
New versions of CPAN modules may break sshnuke.pl
A2: Install Perl & tar zxf my_perllib.tgz
Possibly overwriting existing modules; not cross-platform at all
A3: Use the executable generated by perlcc sshnuke.pl
Impossible to debug; perlcc usually does not work anyway

Prima::tutorial is an introductory tutorial.

Programming graphic interfaces is often considered somewhat boring, and not without a cause. It is a small pride in knowing that your buttons and scrollbars work exactly as millions of others buttons and scrollbars do, so whichever GUI toolkit is chosen, it is usually regarded as a tool of small importance, and the less obtrusive, the better.

Given that, and trying to live up to the famous Perl making easy things easy and hard things possible mantra, this manual page is an introductory tutorial meant to show how to write easy things easy. The hard things are explained in the other Prima manual pages ( see Prima ).

Webmasters Tools is a set of free open-source tools to do the work of the webmaster,
under the OSS licence.

Programs included:

metagen Program to generate meta-tags for your web pages.
metarep Report meta-tags and links in web pages.
updater Copy a part of a web page to all others.
outline Build a tutorial from simple unformatted text files.
makelist Build a page made of the list of links from a directory.

Web tools are free software; you can redistribute the archive and/or modify the programs under the terms of the OSS licence.

XML::Smart::Tutorial is a Perl module with tutorials and examples for XML::Smart.

SYNOPSIS

This document is a tutorial for XML::Smart and shows some examples of usual things.