JasperReports
| Developer(s) | Jaspersoft |
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| Stable release |
6.3.0, see:
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| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | Enterprise Reporting |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | http://community.jaspersoft.com/project/jasperreports-library |
The Intelligence Inside
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| subsidiary | |
| Industry | Business Intelligence |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, United States |
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Key people
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Teodor Danciu, JasperReports; Al Campa, Founder; Brian Gentile, CEO |
| Products | Jaspersoft BI |
| Website | jaspersoft.com |
JasperReports is an open source Java reporting tool that can write to a variety of targets, such as: screen, a printer, into PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, RTF, ODT, Comma-separated values or XML files.
It can be used in Java-enabled applications, including Java EE or web applications, to generate dynamic content. It reads its instructions from an XML or .jasper file.
JasperReports is part of the Lisog open source stack initiative.
JasperReports is an open source reporting library that can be embedded into any Java application. Features include:
For users with more sophisticated report management requirements, reports designed for JasperReports can be easily imported into the JasperServer - the interactive report server..,.
Teodor Danciu began work on JasperReports in June 2001, the sf.net project was registered in September 2001 and JasperReports 0.1.5 was released on November 3, 2001.
JasperReports Version 1.0 was released on July 21, 2005.
The code was originally licensed under a copyleft JasperReports License and later moved to LGPL.
Jaspersoft was originally called Panscopic, and was founded by Al Campa, CEO, and Raj Bhargava, VP of Products in 2001. Panscopic raised $23M from Doll Capital, Discovery Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures, and Partech. In 2004 Panscopic teamed up with Teodor Danciu, acquired the intellectual property of JasperReports, and changed the name of the company to Jaspersoft. Brian Gentile became CEO in 2007.
Jaspersoft provides commercial software around the JasperReports product, and negotiate contracts with software developers that wish to embed the JasperReports engine into a closed source product.
Jaspersoft's main related product is JasperReports Server, a Java EE web application that provides advanced report server capabilities such as report scheduling and permissions. It is available under an open source license for use in conjunction with open source infrastructure such as MySQL and JBoss, or a commercial license for enterprise deployments involving commercial databases and application servers.
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