The Definitive Guide to JasperReports (Expert's Voice) [Paperback]

Teodor Danciu (Author), Lucian Chirita (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590599276 | ISBN-13: 978-1590599273 | Publication Date: August 27, 2007 | Edition: 1

JasperForge.org is the open source development portal for the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, the JasperSoft Business Intelligence solution that delivers comprehensive tools for data access, data integration, analysis, and reporting.

The Definitive Guide to JasperReports covers the JavaOne award winning JasperReports tool at length. It is the only authoritative book on JasperReports.

Written by JasperForge’s Teodor Danciu, Founder and Architect JasperReport, this book will be endorsed by JasperForge.org and JasperSoft, Inc.

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About the Author

Teodor Danciu, Founder and Architect JasperReports, started JasperReports in 2001 and has been its Architect and Lead Developer. Teodor has a 7 years experience as a software engineer working on ERP, B2B, B2C and other database related applications. He has been working with Java for many years and has successfully led development teams on numerous J2EE projects. For the last 2 years he's being working with Hibernate, SWT and the Avalon Framework for porting a large ERP system to the Java Platform.

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (August 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599276
• ISBN-13: 978-1590599273
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,335,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointment, October 1, 2007

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K. Russell - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Definitive Guide to JasperReports (Expert's Voice) (Paperback)

218 pages, not a single example, less than 20 total lines of code. In my opinion you are better off just reading the api.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars clean cut basics without the rabbits, October 29, 2007

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William L. Baker (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Definitive Guide to JasperReports (Expert's Voice) (Paperback)

I've been using JasperReports for years, and periodically purchase the on-line PDF version. The APress printed book is the same as the on-line PDF version. The scope of the book is cleanly defined: JasperReports. It does not cover Eclipse plugins or related libraries such as JFreeChart. It does not mention JasperServer. The book is comprehensive, though more of a reference than a tutorial. I would have been pleased to see more tutorial information and chase a few rabbits for related topics. Other people may appreciate it's close adherence to scope.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pretty pointless, with little useable information, May 22, 2008

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Denis Robert "a real programmer" (Devonshire - Bermuda) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Definitive Guide to JasperReports (Expert's Voice) (Paperback)

JasperReports is a great reporting engine which suffers heavily from its utter lack of useable documentation. I bought this book, written by JasperReports' author Teodor Danciu in the hopes of finally getting adequate documentation. Boy! was I disappointed!

The book is an extremely superficial overview of the product; it's really no more than a glorified README file. Chapter 5 ("Large File Support") is a perfect case in point: The classes in the virtualization API are named, but nowhere is there any explanation on how to actually use them.

It's quite unfortunate that Danciu has put his name on this poor excuse for a book. Luckily, I bought the PDF version, so I wasn't responsible for any trees dying...