Welcome to the JReport Tutorial

Thank you for your interest in JReport, the leading Embedded Reporting Solution for Java Applications. With JReport, intuitive and sophisticated reporting can be customized and integrated as a natural extension of any application.

This guide is intended to provide an overview of the JReport solution, embedded reporting concepts, and detailed step-by-step lessons on using JReport. To allow for lessons to be completed in a reasonable time frame, not all of the features of JReport are covered.

This guide contains three parts:

• Part I: JReport Overview and Setup
  This part briefly introduces reports and JReport.
• Part II: Quick Start
  This part introduces the most powerful yet easy-to-use web tools of JReport: JDashboard, Visual Analysis and Web Report Studio.
• Part III: Advanced Reporting
  This part talks about some advanced reporting features of JReport: how to use JReport Designer to create data resources and use the resources to build reports; how the resources are published to JReport Server and managed on the server, and so on.

Unix platform

This version of the JReport Tutorial is developed and written for Windows. File names and paths, sample JSP code, and screen shots in this guide are based on the Windows 7 operating system. However, you can get a Unix version of the JReport Tutorial by changing the paths to the Unix format.

How to use this guide

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How to contact us

If you encounter any technical issues that prevent completion of the tasks outlined in this guide, please do one of the following:

• Contact our technical support department via e-mail at http://www.jinfonet.com/support, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This service is available free of charge to registered evaluators for up to 30 days after you receive the JReport Evaluation package.
• Search the JReport Knowledge Base in the Customer Care Portal at http://customercare.jinfonet.com for issue resolution. You will need to create a user account as described on the main page of the Customer Care Portal.

Other JReport documentation

This guide is one in the complete JReport documentation set. The documentation set includes the following:

• Getting Started with JReport
• JReport Tutorial
• JReport Server User's Guide
• JReport Designer User's Guide
• JReport Server Monitor User's Guide
• JReport API Javadoc

Click the right arrow () below to begin reading the first track.