JasperReports
The open source Java reporting tool that can write to screen, to a printer or into PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, RTF, ODT, Comma-separated values and XML files
software product, business, computer software, organisation
JasperReport was originally developed by Teodor Danciu, in 2001 for a project he was working on. Then he hosted this class library under the sourceforurge.net . like most of today's frameworks ,JasperReport also powered with Xml. The actual report design is represent as a xml file ,this provides grate flexibility for developers.
With minimal number of java codes we can generate the reports and can be shown in GUI provided by JasperReport (Smiler to Print preview ) using this GUI we can print the report or can export into several file formats. (pdf,odt,xls, html,xml)
Following are the steps for buidling jasper report
Step : 1 Download Jasper Report and Setting Environment
Step : 2 Designing JRXML File using i-report
Step : 3 Compiling JRXML file using jrxml File
Step : 5 Exporting Jasper report to PDF EXCEL WORD XML