iReport GUI report designer for JasperReports
by Kevin Dangoor
I haven’t looked at database reporting tools any time recently. Via Niel Eyde, I discovered that there is a spiffy GUI designer for JasperReports called iReport. It looks like a spiffy tool, and I have a feeling that I’ll be developing some database reports in the next few months. Luckily, some folks have already thought about Using JasperReports with Hibernate.
Kevin- If it weren’t for iReport, I wouldn’t use JasperReports because the templates (xml) would be too complicated to generate manually. Although I have on occasion done some tweaking of the iReport generated report template. I am an avid Hibernate fan, so I appreciate your note on using JasperReports with Hibernate.
Hi Kevin,
I have had the opportunity to use JasperReports and IReports rather extensively in the last few months. The approach you mention is OK for small reports (ex. a few hundred lines), but I had performance issues for larger, “real-life” business reports with thousands or 10s of thousands of results – Tomcat literally exploded (out of memory…). Have a look at my blog entry to see how I got around this problem :
http://www.jroller.com/page/wakaleo/?anchor=using_hibernate_queries_with_jasperreports