Manual for iReport

1 General Information about iReport 1.1 What is iReport 1.2 Short history of iReport 1.3 Books about JasperReports 1.4 The main features of iReport 1.5 Useful JasperReports and iReport related links 2 Installing iReport 2.1 System Requirements 2.2 Installation and configuration 2.3 The final test... 3 iReport and JasperReports basic concepts 3.1 How JasperReports works 3.2 Compilation end export of reports 3.3 Our first very simple report 4 Connections and Datasources 4.1 Types of datasource 4.2 Setting up a JDBC connection 4.3 Setting up a custom datasource 4.4 Implementing a new custom datasource 5 Bands and groups 5.1 Bands 5.2 Groups 6 iReport plugins 6.1 The abstract iReport plugin 6.2 The plugin file descriptor 6.3 The hello world plugin 7 Using the XML datasource 7.1 Configuring an XML datasource 7.2 The Record Path 7.3 XML Datasource Syntax 7.4 Addressbook sample 7.5 XML Datasource license 8 Charts 8.1 Creation of a simple chart