JasperAssistant 1.3.0 for JasperReports 0.6.0 released !

[Peter Severin]

JasperAssistant is a visual report designer for JasperReports, a popular open-source reporting engine. It is built on top of the Eclipse's plug-in architecture and its main goal is to help you create JasperReports report definition files through an intuitive graphical interface.





The latest 1.3.0 version adds the following features:

• The latest JasperReports 0.6.0 support. Most notable features added by this version of JasperReports are:


• Java package hierarchy change.
• A new JRRenderable interface that brings an enhanced image quality.
• A new XPath based XML data source contributed to JasperReports by the JasperAssistant Team.



• Integrated XML data source support. Reports can be filled and previewed using the data from

a xml document. (Eclipse 3.0)

• Horizontal/Vertical spacing actions.
• Align in band actions.
• Shortcuts support. Now shortcuts can be defined for every action exposed by JasperAssistant. (Eclipse 3.0)
• Added a new set of toolbars. All the alignment actions can be accessed directly from

the toolbar. The visibility and positioning of a toolbar is customizable. (Eclipse 3.0)

Other minor changes:

• Move up/Move down actions in the Outline View.
• Panning selection tool. Holding Space while dragging will pan the report page.
• Added cancel support to the preview generation dialog.
• Fixed the classpath problem that caused compilation errors in certain

project configurations when using scriptlets or external utility classes.

• Fixed a Query Wizard bug that prevented it from working in certain conditions with Oracle database.







Download an evaluation version from: http://www.jasperassistant.com/download.html




Screenshots: http://www.jasperassistant.com/screenshots.html




For more information please visit http://www.jasperassistant.com